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Hans Gedda: The Third Eye
Hans Gedda: The Third Eye
By Magnus Olausson and
Eva-Lena Karlsson
Hans Gedda has, for half a century,
been one of Sweden’s most prominent
photographers. Internationally, he
has achieved fame for his portraits of
Nelson Mandela and Andy Warhol, but
his gallery of characters also includes
many well-known Swedes, such as Olof
Palme, Birgit Nilsson and Tomas
Tranströmer. In these images, there is
neither time nor space; everything is
stripped down to its essentials. We find
examples here of both intimacy and
distance.
Gedda has always operated on a sliding
scale of different genres and modes of
expression, mixing portraiture with still
life and semi-documentary reportage.
Perhaps this is natural for an experimental artist who has worked all his life
as a commercial photographer. Today,
Hans Gedda’s main areas of interest are
studies of nature and still lifes.
Magnus Olausson is an Associate
Professor of Art History and Director of
Collections at the Nationalmuseum.
Among other works, he has previously
written about photographers as Georg
Oddner and Hans Hammarskiöld,
together with Eva-Lena Karlsson,
Curator at the Nationalmuseum with
special responsibility for the Swedish
Portrait Gallery.
Nationalmuseum, December 2013.
176 pp, Hardback with dust jacket,
richly illustrated.
ISBN 978-91-7100-847-3
[English edition]
ISBN 978-91-7100-846-6
[Swedish edition]
Special offer SEK 249 (SEK 295)
Illustrations:
Hans Gedda, Self-Portrait as the White Face
Clown, 2001, Nationalmuseum, NMGrh 4848.
Hans Gedda, Nelson Mandela.
Hans Gedda, Jonas Gardell.
Hans Gedda, Tove Jansson.