Photography from the collection

17.9.14 - 16.11.14

This year's presentation of the collection turned the focus on photography as an artistic medium. The works shown challenged and investigated the unique relationship between photography and reality, and highlighted several points of contact where classic genres such as landscape, portrait, and architecture were reinterpreted.

Photography is still relatively young as a medium, especially in the art context. Although invented in 1839, photography was not really acknowledged as an artistic form of expression until the 1980s. Today photography stands on an equal footing with painting and drawing and has reached an age when the artists reflect over the specific conditions and premises of the medium.

The modern digitalized photograph, unlike the analog photograph, breaks down into tiny units called pixels, which can be processed more or less at will. Digitalization has made it much simpler to manipulate the image, and the convincing result fundamentally questions the idea of the photograph as an objective, neutral record of reality. Instead of documenting the subject depicted, the digital photograph enables a pictorial practice in which imagination and fiction thrive as vigorously as in other artistic media.

LANDSCAPES

PER BAK JENSEN
Bryce Canyon, USA, 2000
Colour photograph

THOMAS STRUTH
Paradise 36 (New Smyrna Beach), Florida, 2007
C-print
Acquired with funding from The Augustinus Foundation

THOMAS DEMAND
Lichtung (Clearing), 2004
Diasec mounted C-print
Acquired with support from I.F. Lemvigh Müllers Fond

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Union City Drive-In, Union City, 1993
Silver gelatine photograph

PORTRAITS

RICHARD AVEDON
Donald Keen, coal miner, Reliance, Wyoming, August 28. 1979
Silver gelatin print mounted on aluminum
Donation: The Richard Avedon Foundation

RICHARD AVEDON
Alfred Lester, dryland farmer, Charboneau, North Dakota, August 17. 1982
Silver gelatin print mounted on aluminum
Acquired with funding from Museumsfonden

ROGER BALLEN
Dresie and Casie, Twins, , Western Transvaal, 1993
Selenium toned silver gelatine print

RINEKE DIJKSTRA
Shany, Herzliya, Israel, August 1. 2003
C-print
Donation: Dutch Art Works

RINEKE DIJKSTRA
Shany, Palhamin Israeli Airforce Base, Palhamin Israel, Oktober 8. 2002
C-print
Donation: Dutch Art Works

RINEKE DIJKSTRA
Omri, Kiryat Shmonah, Israel, September 25. 2000
C-print
Donation: Dutch Art Works

RINEKE DIJKSTRA
Omri, Givatti Brigade, Golan Heights, Israel, March 29. 2000
C-print
Donation: Dutch Art Works

FRANCESCA WOODMAN
Self-deceit #4, Rome, Italy ,1978
Gelatin silver estate print
Acquired with funding from The Augustinus Foundation

FRANCESCA WOODMAN
Self-portrait talking to Vince, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-1978
Gelatin silver estate print
Acquired with funding from The Augustinus Foundation