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In 1967, on assignment for a Swedish company,
Hammarskio ̈ld started creating ‘‘Pictoramas.’’
These are color visual multimedia shows using up
to 36 different projectors and often synchronized
with music. Hammarskio ̈ld also photographed
artists and their work, such as American sculptor
Claes Oldenburg and the great Russian dancer
Rudolf Nureyev. He published a book of holo-
graphs with Swedish artist and poet Carl Fredrik
Reuterswa ̈rd in 1969 titledLaser.
Throughout his career, Hammarskio ̈ld has taken
photographs of nature, frequently focusing on
details that result in images which are fairly
abstract. InGotlandsstrand, 1973, a feather is lit up
in the foreground with the shining sun in the back-
ground, separated by the ocean and unique rock
formations. The line of the translucent feather
adds a decorative quality to the image found in
many other of his images such as ‘‘The Royal
Palace, Stockholm, 1970.’’ The swan’s curved
white neck frames part of the image, again present-
ing a graphic aspect of the image with intense black–
and-white contrasts. Hammarskio ̈ld’s many photo-
graphs of nature celebrate its beauty and complex-
ity. In Jan Cederquist’s text,Hans Hammarskio ̈ld,
Photographer(1979), Hammarskio ̈ld is quoted:

I’m very concerned about what we’re doing to nature
today. As a photographer I could try influencing opinions
by showing ugly deforestations areas, animals killed by
pesticides and the like. But I prefer doing it the opposite
way. To show the beauty and magic of nature. To try to
make people see and feel what’s really at stake.
Hammarskio ̈ld still illustrates books today, tak-
ing many pictures of nature, working mainly in
color since 1984. He has illustrated 25 books, and
his photographs have been published internation-
ally. His work is also found in collections across the
world, including MoMA, the Library of Congress,
and the Bibliothe`que nationale de France in Paris.

KRISTENGresh

Seealso: Conde ́ Nast; History of Photography:
Postwar Era; Olson, Lennart

Biography

Born in Stockholm, 17 May 1925. Attended Ostra Real,
1936–1944; self-educated in photography; assistant to
cinematographer Sven Thermænius, 1947; apprentice at
Studio Uggla under portraitist Rolf Winquist, Stock-
holm, 1948. Photographer, Bellander Studio, Stock-
holm, 1950;Voguemagazine, Conde ́Nast Publications,
London, 1955–1956; freelance photographer (fashion,
architecture, and nature) in Stockholm, since 1957;
founding member of ‘‘Tio Fotografer,’’ Stockholm,

1958; freelance multimedia shows since 1967; illustrated

25 books since 1950s. Living in Stockholm, Sweden.

Individual Exhibitions

1951 Rotohallen; Stockholm, Sweden

1956 London; Institute of Contemporary Arts; London, England

1958 London; Artek; Stockholm, Sweden

1962 Scandinavian Design Cavalcade; Svensk Form; Stock-

holm, Sweden

1979 Retrospective; Camera Obscura; Stockholm, Sweden

Retrospective; Douglas Elliott Gallery; San Francisco,

California

1981 Stephen White Gallery; Los Angeles, California

1984 Vision Gallery; San Francisco, California

1985 Stockholm; Bloomingdale’s; New York

1987 Gotlands Fornsal; Visby, Sweden

1989 Barn, barnbarn; Upplands Konstmuseum; Uppsala, Sweden

1993 Subjectivt sett; Fotografiska Museet; Stockholm, Sweden

2002 Reflexer-bilder fra ̊n ett halvt seke; Waldemarsudde;

Stockholm, Sweden

Group Exhibitions

1949 Unga fotografer(Young Photographers); Rotohallen;

Stockholm, Sweden (1950, traveled to New York)

1951 Jeunes Photographes de Sue`de; Galerie Kodak; Paris,

France

Subjektive Fotografie; State Art and Crafts School;

Saarbru ̈cken, Switzerland

1952 Weltaustellung de Photographie; Lucerne, Switzerland

1953 Postwar European Photography; Museum of Modern

Art; New York and traveling

Svensk Fotokonst 1948–1951; Gothenburg Konstmu-

seum; Gothenburg, Sweden

1954 Svensk fotografi av idag, svartvitt; National Museum

of Stockholm; Stockholm, Sweden

Subjektive Fotografie 2; Saarbru ̈cken, Germany

1955 Fotografi 55; Svenska Fotografernas Fo ̈rbunds jubi-

leumsutsta ̈llning; Stockholm, Sweden

The Family of Man; Museum of Modern Art; New

York and traveling

1958 Fotokunst; Lunds Konsthall; Lund, Sweden

1962 Svenskarna sedda av 11 fotografer; Moderna Museet;

Stockholm, Sweden

1970 Tio Fotografer; Bibliothe`que Nationale; Paris, France

1971 Contemporary Photographs from Sweden, Library of

Congress; Washington, D.C.

1978 Tusen och En Bild/1001 Pictures, Moderna Museet;

Stockholm, Sweden

1982 The Frozen Image: Scandinavian Photography; Walker

Art Center; Minneapolis, Minnesota

1984 Six Swedish Photographers, LACPS; Los Angeles, California

1985 ‘‘Subjektive Fotografie,’’Bilder der 50er Jahre; Muse-

um Folkwang; Essen, Germany

Selected Works

Barcelona, 1949

Frost, 1949

Edward Steichen 1968, 1968

Battersea Bridge, 1955

Chelsea embankment, 1955

Caroline, 1955

HAMMARSKIO ̈LD, HANS