Tuija Lindström
Tuija Lydia Elisabeth Lindström (5 May 1950 – 26 December 2017) was a Finnish-Swedish photographer, artist and professor of photography at School of Photography and Film, University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1992–2001. She lived and worked in Stockholm, Sweden. In the early 1990s, she became very noted for her black and white pictures of women floating in a black lake, known as Girls at Bull's Pond.
Tuija Lindström
- Full name
- Tuija Lydia Elisabeth Lindström.
- Born
- 1950. · Kotka.
- Died
- 2017. · Stockholm.
- Nationality
- Sweden and Finland.
- Occupation
- photographer and video artist.
- Languages
- Swedish and Finnish.
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Her pictures at this time addressed feminist issues but from a different perspective than has previously been customary in Sweden. She has held several international exhibitions. Her 2012 exhibition A Dream If Ever There Was One at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg presented an overview of her work including landscapes, portraits, nudes and still lifes in collaboration with Helsinki's Finnish Museum of Photography. Lindström was Sweden's first female professor in photography at the University of Gothenburg, establishing a master's programme and laying the foundations for ongoing photographic research.
Lindström's work is held in the following permanent collections: • Moderna Museet, Stockholm: 18 prints (as of 13 September 2023) • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston: 1 print (as of 13 September 2023) • Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
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Tuija Lindström was a film-maker, photographer and video artist, born on 5 May 1950 and died on 26 December 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. Tuija Lindström was born in Kotka, Finland, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Getty Union List of Artist Names. The death is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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- 1.Tuija Lindström. Anna Teligren. Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes. Luce Lebart et Marie Robert (dir.). Éditions Textuel. 2020. 378.
- 2.Valokuvaaja Tuija Lindström on kuollut. Yle. 27. décembre. 2017. Mattias Mattila.
- 3.Anna Tellgren. Tuija Lydia Elisabeth Lindström. Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon.
- 4.Pontus Silfverstolpe. Tuija Lindström är död, men aldrig dör hennes konst. Barnabys. 2017.
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