| | | | | | | | | NINA Financial Times © Carl Bengtsson | | | | | Strike A Pose | | | | | | | 18 March - 29 April, 2017 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ELLE Germany, 2015 © Carl Bengtsson | | | | | | The power of the photographer behind the camera and the choice of models, direct our time and the image of our history. Grundemark Nilsson Gallery has curated a selection of iconic photographs along with new ones in the group exhibition Strike a Pose, where the focus is on the act of posing as well as on the power of the photographer.
The icon Kate Moss, on of the most photographed models in the world, is portrayed in Marrakech, 1993 by Albert Watson (b. 1942 Great Britain). The photograph was taken for the German Vogue and is today one of his most popular photographs. By the end of a day while shooting in Marrakech, Watson suggested they would take some nude photographs on the rooftop of a house and Moss said yes. Both Watson and Moss agree that the photographs they created there on the roof are some of the best images of her ever taken.
The sunlight and the natural beauty that Watson captured brings another great photographer to the mind, Peter Lindbergh (b. 1944 Germany), whose work also is shown in the exhibition Strike a Pose. Another supermodel, almost naked, is posing sexy but with an attitude for Lindbergh. The woman in the photograph is the model and actress Milla Jovovich, who Lindbergh recurrently photographed during the years. He has been a great admirer of the well-known supermodels of the 90s, and he continuously does fashion shoots with them for the big magazines. In a time of exaggerated retouch in magazines, he uses a kind of romantic realism in his photographs and tries to redefine the norm of beauty. In his editorials he often photographs in fair daylight and almost creates short film sequences through the series of photo stills that he shoots.
The Swedish star, fashion photographer Carl Bengtsson (b. 1952 Sweden), also uses natural light and often natural make-up on his models. He has been photographing with new techniques as well as analogue photography during his career and bestows an astonishing nature in his works. A distinct characteristic in the book Portraits, 2011, by Carl Bengtsson is how he lets the personality of the models shine through in his photography, very much like Lindbergh and Watson.
The choice of models is of great importance and in Julia Hetta´s (b. 1972 Sweden) photographs it is stunning how timeless the beauty of the models are. Hetta discourage artificial light and works almost solely with natural daylight and long exposures, not unlike photographers in previous generations. The way Hetta manages the light in her works, gives a reminiscence of old baroque paintings where the portrayed sort of appears through a quiet, pitch-black darkness. The ideal of the body has changed during time and Hetta’s engagement in the business is clearly stated in the way she chooses her models, preferably showing curves and street casted models then supermodels. |
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