Tom Sandberg
Tom Sandberg (14 September 1953 – 5 February 2014) was a Norwegian art photographer.
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Tom Sandberg
- Born
- 1953 · Narvik.
- Died
- 2014 · Oslo.
- Nationality
- Norway
- Occupation
- photographer
- Honours
- Fotografiprisen
- Languages
- Norwegian
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Tom Sandberg (14 September 1953 – 5 February 2014) was a Norwegian art photographer.
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Early life and education
Early life and education
Sandberg was born on 14 September 1953 in Narvik, Norway, the son of Erik Sandberg and Aina Hällström. He grew up in the Grorud Valley in eastern Oslo. From 1973 until 1976 he studied photography at Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham, England.
Career
Career
Sandberg worked as a photographer from the 1970s. According to Juxtapoz (2022), 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."
Death
Death
Sandberg died on 5 February 2014 in Oslo.
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• Tom Sandberg: Photographs 1989–2006, MoMA PS1, New York, 2007
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Narvik.
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Oslo.
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Publications
• Fotografier. Oslo: Oktober, 1995.. • Tom Sandberg – Photography. Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2000.. • Tom Sandberg: Photographs. New York: Aperture, 2022..
Films
• Bortenfor språket/Beyond language (NRK, 2000) – by Nils Petter Lotherington
Collections
Sandberg's work is held in the following permanent collections: • Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden: 5 prints (as of 6 January 2023) • National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway: 61 objects (as of 6 January 2023)
Awards
• 2010: Anders Jahre Culture Prize
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- 1.Faltin, Annette. Tom Sandberg – fotograf – Store norske leksikon. Store norske leksikon. 20 April 2024.
- 2.Biography. Tom Sandberg Foundation.
- 3.The Rich, Exacting Photographs of Tom Sandberg. 23 November 2022.
- 4.Anders Jahres pris for yngre kunstnere går til billedkunstneren Johanne Hestvold og filmregissøren Izer Aliu. Anders Jahres Humanitære Stiftelse.
- 5.Enigmas in plain sight: the photography of Tom Sandberg. The Guardian. 16 October 2022.
- 6.Tom Sandberg: Photographs 1989–2006. The Museum of Modern Art.
- 7.Works – Tom Sandberg – Artists. Moderna Museet.
- 8.Search the collection. National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.
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