Tom Sandberg: Photographs

The first major publication dedicated to one of Norway's most important photographers

Working in a signature modulating gray scale, the late Norwegian photographer Tom Sandberg spent decades rendering the world according to an exacting vision, training his eye on the shapes and forms 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--to plumb the nature of photographic seeing. His pictures are subtle yet transformative, studies of stillness that radiate mystery. A perfectionist in the darkroom, Sandberg was acutely sensitive to the rich spectrum of black and white, and his handmade prints, at times printed on aluminum and canvas, project a powerful physical presence.

Although Sandberg is esteemed in his native Norway and throughout Scandinavia and Europe, his oeuvre is less known in the United States and other parts of the world. This monograph, produced in close collaboration with the Tom Sandberg Foundation in Oslo, is a long-overdue celebration of this distinguished artist.

Author: Tom Sandberg
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 09/13/2022
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.18lbs
Size: 11.30h x 9.80w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781597115155

About the Author
Sandberg, Tom: - Tom Sandberg (1953-2014; born in Narvik, Norway) worked and lived in Oslo. In the early 1970s, he studied photography at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, UK, where Thomas Joshua Cooper, Paul Hill, and Minor White where among his teachers. Sandberg's early work was among the first acquisitions of photography by the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo. His work is held in the collections of numerous other museums, as well as in public and private collections, including those of Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; and Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.Nickas, Bob: - Bob Nickas, a critic and independent curator based in New York, has organized more than ninety exhibitions since 1984. He was curatorial advisor at the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 in New York between 2004-7; served on the organizational team for the 2003 Biennale de Lyon, France; contributed a section to the Aperto exhibition at the 1993 Venice Biennale; and collaborated with Cady Noland on her 1992 installation at Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany. His books include Live Free or Die: Collected Writings, 1985-1999 (2000); Theft Is Vision (2007); Painting Abstraction: New Elements In Abstract Painting (2009); Catalog of the Exhibition, 1984-2011 (2011); and The Dept. of Corrections: Collected Writings 2007-2015 (2015).