Tom Sandberg (photographer)

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Tom Sandberg (14 September 1953 – 5 February 2014) was a Norwegian art photographer.[1]

Life and work[edit]

Sandberg was born in Narvik, but grew up in the Grorud Valley in eastern Oslo. In the early 1970s, he studied photography at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, England.[2]

He worked as a photographer from the 1970s. According to Juxtapoz, with his "signature modulating gray scale", he made photographs of "the everyday—dark abstractions of asphalt and sea, the hard edges of an automobile, an ominously curved tunnel, an anonymous figure casting a shadow ... His pictures are subtle yet transformative, studies of stillness that radiate mystery."[3]

Publications[edit]

  • Fotografier. Oslo: Oktober, 1995. ISBN 9788270946877.
  • Tom Sandberg – Photography. Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2000. ISBN 8291430217.
  • Tom Sandberg: Photographs. New York: Aperture, 2022. ISBN 978-1597115155.[4]

Films[edit]

  • Bortenfor språket/Beyond language (NRK, 2000) – by Nils Petter Lotherington

Solo exhibitions[edit]

  • Tom Sandberg: Photographs 1989–2006, MoMA PS1, New York, 2007[5]

Collections[edit]

Sandberg's work is held in the following permanent collections:

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ustvedt, Øystein. "Tom Sandberg". Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Biography". Tom Sandberg Foundation. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  3. ^ "Juxtapoz Magazine - The Rich, Exacting Photographs of Tom Sandberg". www.juxtapoz.com. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  4. ^ "Enigmas in plain sight: the photography of Tom Sandberg". The Guardian. 16 October 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
  5. ^ "Tom Sandberg: Photographs 1989–2006". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  6. ^ "Works – Tom Sandberg – Artists". Moderna Museet. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  7. ^ "Search the collection". National Museum of Art, Architecture and Desig. Retrieved 2023-01-06.

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