Welcome TO AN ARTIST TALK ABOUT NUDITY & HELMUT NEWTON WITH LARS SCHWANDER AT THE MUSEUM
Perhaps the nude studies, as a genre, today can be considered old-fashioned and ineffective (in sexual terms). For example, in relation to the development of the free spirit; the fact that nudity has become natural, the liberalization of nudity, porn, the entry of video into the media image, etc. And isn’t clothing even more interesting as an erotic tool than the completely undressed body?
When it comes to Helmut Newton, he probably cultivated the naked body, but to an even greater extent the clothing, the clothes, its fetish. And the nudity, he often combined with unorthodox situations. But who was Helmut Newton: what is myth and what is reality? This is of course a difficult question to answer. However, a relatively confidential relationship developed between Helmut Newton and I, which, among other things, resulted in the offer to write his memoirs.
WHO IS LARS SCHWANDER?
Lars Schwander is BA Copenhagen University, photographer, writer, composer and collector. He is an expert in photography and already in the 1980s involved in the start-up of the Museum of Photography (Brandts, Odense), he worked as a subject specialist at the Photographic Department at the Royal Library (Copenhagen) and founded Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen), as well as being its director the first 15 years, when a large number of the world’s leading photographers visited the gallery. In parallel, Lars Schwander worked at Louisiana MoMA and organized a number of photographic exhibitions with Magnum Agency, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, and not least Arnold Newman, who became a very close friend. The biography of Newman is scheduled to be published in 2024. Lars Schwander has also been an advisor for the Hasselblad Foundation (Gothenburg) and has been on the jury for the ”Hasselblad Award” (Gothenburg), Prix BMW (Paris) etc. For 30 years he has been a close friend and collaborator with the concept artist Yoko Ono.
And finally, Lars Schwander is a photographer himself and has exhibited in Denmark and abroad. He does mainly portraits of artists and friends. In this way it’s Lars, who did the portrait of Helmut Newton (top image) at the entrance to the exhibition at Falsterbo Photo Museum.
When: 16th March at 14.30
Where: In our restaurant Bistro Perspektiv & Falsterbo Photo
Language: The lecture will be in English with a mix of Danish and accompanied by image projections.
Cost: Please buy your entrance fee to the museum and this will be your ticket to the lecture. Members are free of charge.
Lunch: Bistro Perspektiv offers lunch between 12-14. You can choose between two dishes – Fish (185 SEK) or vegetarian (175 SEK), water & coffee included in the price. Other drinks will be for sale.
Please book latest by 8th March:
boka@falsterbophoto.com
(Name, number of people, Fish or Veg and what time)
Come early to enjoy our exhibitions before lunch and the lecture. Hope to see you! The doors will open at 11 o’clock. WELCOME!
