For the first time, one of Norway's largest private photo collections is presented to the public. The exhibition is on display at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter from June 23 to December 12, 2021 (as long as corona restrictions allow).
The Møller Collection contains a wide range of photographs covering more than 170 years and provides an insight into the history of photography from its humble beginnings to popular culture's embrace of the medium. The exhibition is part of Henie Onstad's focus on photography.
- This collection takes the audience on a visual journey through two centuries of camera-based images. Exhibitions showcase some of the world's foremost photographers, presenting together several hidden treasures and offering a rare exposure of time," says Tone Hansen, Director of Henie Onstad Art Center.
The Møller Collection consists of iconic images and unknown works by Norwegian and international photographers. The images tell stories about the great events and people that have shaped our time, but also about forgotten moments, anonymous passers-by and the quiet changes in nature. The collection touches on almost the entire history of photography, without being representative of it. Møller's collection has been built up over many years, based on personal interest and a broad commitment to photography as an art form and its importance as a medium of communication in our time.
- The exhibition is divided into eight chapters that are mainly genre-based, such as documentary, portrait, nature, experiment and contemporary art. My goal with the selection has been to show the high photographic quality of individual works and to intertwine Norwegian and international photographic history," says Susanne Østby Sæther, curator of photography and new media at Henie Onstad Art Center.
The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalog published by Forlaget Press. The book presents almost 300 images from the collection together with photo-historical introductions by curator Susanne Østby Sæther and Cecilie Tyri Holt, a conversation between Jonas Bendiksen and Harald Møller, as well as literary contributions related to individual images from the Møller Collection written by internationally recognized authors such as Jon Kalman Stefansson, Edmund de Waal, Suzanne Brøgger, Linn Ullmann, Daniel Mendelsohn, Jon Fosse, Lars Saabye Christensen and Judith Schalansky among others.
Photographers presented in the exhibition:
Berenice Abbott, Laure Albin-Guillot, Dag Alveng, Morten Andenæs, Morten Andersen, Domenico Anderson, Diane Arbus, David Bailey, Bjarne Bare, Pavel Baňka, Per Barclay, Felice A. Beato, Cecil Beaton, Jonas Bendiksen, Jim Bengtson, Per Berntsen, Vladimir Birgus, John Blakemore, Erwin Blumenfeld, Édouard Boubat, Bill Brandt, Nick Brandt, George Brassaï (Gyula Halász), Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Marilyn Christine Bridges, Jane Brown, Matthias Bruggmann, Edward Burtynsky, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Linda Cartridge, Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty, Larry Clark, Lucien Clergue, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Anton Corbijn, Tommaso Cuccioni, Imogen Cunningham, Edward S. Curtis, Sara Cwynar, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Geri Della Rocca de Candal, Jean Dieuzaide, Robert Doisneau, Anne Kathrine Dolven, František Drtikol, Richard Dumas, Werner Eckelt, Ann Christine Eek, Ingrid Eggen, Ed van der Elsken, Hugo Erfurth, Bjørn Falch Andersen, Adolf Fassbender, Roger Fenton, Larry Fink, Grancel Fitz, Franco Fontana, John French, Lee Friedlander, Bente Geving, Mario Giacomelli, Ralph Gibson, Dudley Glanfield, Espen Gleditsch, Fay Godwin, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, William P. Gottlieb, Milton H. Greene, René Groebli, Philippe Halsman, Frank Harbidge, Bert Hardy, Heinrich Heidersberger, Sean Hemmerle, Fred Herzog, Paul Hill, Damien Hirst, Candida Höfer, Karin Hofer, Thurston Hopkins, Horst P. Horst, Lotte Jacobi, Sunil Janah, Rune Johansen, Dora Kallmus (Madame D'Ora), Gertrude Käsebier, André Kertész, Kåre Kivijärvi, Viktor Kolář, Josef Koudelka, Arild Kristo, Germaine Krull, János Kublin, Kimbei Kusakabe, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Anna-Lou «Annie» Leibovitz, Helen Levitt, Pixy Liao, Henny Lie, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Danny Lyon, Morten Løberg, Sally Mann, Per Maning, Mary Ellen Mark, Tom Martinsen, Ramón Masats, Roger Mayne, Mikkel McAlinden, Steve McCurry, Enrique Metinides, Ray Metzker, Joel Meyerowitz, Bjarne Melgaard, Lee Miller, Inge Morath, Barbara Morgan, Luciano Monti, Daidō Moriyama, Richard Mosse, Raymond Mosken, Eadweard Muybridge, James Nachtwey, Shirin Neshat, Carl Nesjar, Arnold Newman, Cathrine Opie, Jamie Parslow, Irving Penn, Nicola Perscheid, Herbert Ponting, Man Ray, Regina Relang, Marc Riboud, Leni Riefenstahl, John Olav Riise, Grace Robertson, Robert Robinson, Mick Rock, Willy Ronis, Arthur Rothstein, Osvaldo Salas, Sebastião Salgado, Fin Serck-Hanssen, Tore Sandahl, Tom Sandberg, Hugo Scott, Jean Pascal Sébah, Rocky Schenck, Jeanloup Sieff, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Kjartan Slettemark, Gunnar Smoliansky, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Edward J. Steichen, Christer Strömholm, Thomas Struth, Vibeke Tandberg, Kjell Sten Tollefsen, Shōmei Tōmatsu, Dan Young, Andy Warhol, Charlie White, Bob Willoughby and Eugen Wiskowšký.
