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Helmut Newton

- The provocateur

He has been called the world's greatest fashion photographer of all time but also one of the most provocative with his titillating depictions of strong, independent women. In a new, unique exhibition, Falsterbo Photo Art Museum presents more than a hundred original images signed by Helmut Newton, many odd and rarely seen. Photographic genius or provocateur? One thing is certain - this is an exhibition that leaves no one indifferent!

Helmut Newton 1993 Self-Portrait copyright / courtesy Helmut Newton Foundation

Ongoing exhibitions

Gabriel Isak, Blue Moon
2024
opening on March 29

Gabriel Isak - Into the blue

Gabriel Isak was born in 1990 in Huskvarna, Sweden. In 2016 he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California. His exhibition, Into the Blue, includes works from various collections that Gabriel Isak has created with a strong focus on the color blue. Here the camera has been used as a tool to create images filled with symbols and emotions in surrealist and minimalist landscapes.

The blue thread of the exhibition presents a calm and peaceful atmosphere, touching on themes of melancholy, existentialism, psychology and the dream world. In desolate landscapes with anonymous subjects, the viewer is invited to interact with them, where they can imagine themselves as the subjects, and reflect back on their own life journey and experiences.

Karl Lagerfeld and Olga Pantushenkova at Karl Lagerfeld's Chanel Haute Couture show Paris 1995
2024
INAUGURATION 29 March

EWA-MARI JOHANSSON - Supermodels Backstage

They lounge or twirl backstage at Karl Lagerfeld and Donna Karan shows, among others. Their names shine in neon letters all over the world throughout the 1990s: Helena Christensen, Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer, Linda Evangelista... movie stars of their time. In garments from Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, Enrico Coveri, Donna Karan DKNY, Badgley Mischka, Ellen Tracy, Anna Molinari for Bluemarin and more.

In Ewa-Mari Johansson's Supermodels Backstage, we see how the atmosphere backstage goes from the early morning's calm lull in the homely mess of coffee mugs, fixing hair, makeup and trying on clothes - to hyper-focus once the show starts. All chaotic on the surface, but organized in the smallest detail with a military timing, so the right model wears the right clothes in the right order. Mission: To deliver a theater of fashion that exudes perfection on stage to a demanding front row
audience ranging from celebrities and movie stars to the legendary Anna Wintour and Grace
Coddington at Vouge.
This is the place where everything comes to a head.

Richard Avedon, Dovima with elephants, evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August 1955
Always at the museum
own department

Permanent exhibition

The private photo collection of international caliber is built over 15 years and forms the basis for the museum's exhibitions. It is world-class photography, a unique photo collection with more than 550 original photographs. There are more than 50 photographs by Helmut Newton and 40 by Herb Ritts.

Also well represented are Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel, Michael Dweck, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anton Corbijn, Patrick Demarchelier, Chen Man and Steven Klein. And more than 40 other world-class photographers such as Chris Levine, Mona Kuhn, Arthur Elgort, Rankin, Ellen von Unwerth, Albert Watson and Nick Knight.

Previous exhibitions

Camilla Åkrans © Girl with Hermes Horse 2006
Previous Special Exhibition

Camilla Åkrans

Sensual, female and soulful." This was the final sentence in the justification when fashion photographer Camilla Åkrans received Elle magazine's honorary award in 2019. And this is not the first time she has been awarded. She has previously been named Fashion Photographer of the Year three times by the same magazine.

Camilla Åkrans said in an interview that she portrays women from the same perspective as she wants to be seen: strong, sexy and vulnerable, but on a woman's terms.

2022-2023
Previous exhibition

Undressed for success? Nude and Famous

The world's top photographers have captured the stunning images of celebrities as you've never seen them before - stripped down in the lap of luxury or in the most unexpected situations. Welcome to 140 unique images that will blow your mind!

Here you'll meet a host of world-famous people like you've never seen them before - Lady Gaga, The Beatles, Pamela Anderson, Nelson Mandela, Salvador Dali, Queen Elizabeth II, King Carl XVI Gustaf, Madonna, Richard Gere, Jonas Gardell, Brigitte Bardot, Kendal Jenner and many others. But there are also unknown professional models in the classic genre of photography - the nude study.

24 Sept - 26 MARCH 2023
special exhibition

The Sappers - Kongo Kinshasa

Being a Sapeur is more than a way of dressing, more than a hobby and more than a way to earn money and respect. It is a prestigious fraternity with its own moral and social codes and ultimately it is a way of living and surviving.

Dressing up and parading in the streets makes them feel important, allowing them to forget their daily struggles in chaotic Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

2022
Special exhibition

ADEY

Welcome to the opening of photographer AdeY's new exhibition at Galleri Trappan at Falsterbo Photo Art Museum on 10 June from 5 to 7 pm. Live performance starts at 6 pm.

Performance Freedom. Photo & Copyright © Ewa-Mari Johansson.
2021 - 2022
Previous special exhibition

performance freedom

In photographer Ewa-Mari Johansson's exhibition "Performance Freedom", we meet strong and independent women in fashion images created for the big magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Donna, Amica and Vogue Sposa, but also images from photo series that take us to the African savannah, and to the performance scene in New York in the 1970s and 1980s.

The images are from her entire career as a photographer, from the 1980s to the 21/2000s, and show fashion from Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Norma Kamali, Prada, and the Italian haute couture house Lancetti.

In the 1970s, Ewa-Mari Johansson worked as a top model in New York, Paris, London and Milan and was seen on the cover of Italian Vogue. She was educated in the United States, in art photography at UCLA, Los Angeles, and with film studies in New York. In addition to fashion photography, she has worked with street photography, and reportage and architecture photography around the world.

Image caption The images in the performance series, which were photographed at Södra Teatern in Stockholm, examine the feminism that Madonna brought into popular culture.

Ellen Von Unwerth Kate and David, New York, 2003
2021-2022
Previous main exhibition

Dressed for success

The premiere exhibition "Dressed for Success – 100 Years of Fashion Photography" showcases more than 140 exclusive works that reflect the history of fashion photography.

Many of the most iconic images are here in their original versions and 38 world-famous photographers are represented. Our premiere exhibition features 38 world-famous photographers. Follow the evolution of fashion photography over almost 100 years, many of the most iconic images are here in their original versions.

Almost all the photographs are signed originals, produced by the photographer himself. No printed exhibition copies copied for display. With few exceptions, handcrafted "Vintage Prints" in limited, signed editions.

Falsterbo strandbad

In the southwestern part of southernmost Skåne, about 30 minutes drive from Malmö and the Öresund Bridge, there is Näset with Skanör-Falsterbo, among others. Here you will find some of Sweden's most beautiful sandy beaches and unique nature with rich bird life, pine forest, heather and.

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