Bernard Larsson

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Bernard Larsson (born May 21, 1939 in Hamburg ) is a Swedish photographer who spent his professional life in Germany.

Life

Larsson studied photography and photo design in Munich at the State School for Photography , which is now called the State Academy for Photo Design Munich . He then went to Paris for some time to work for William Klein . In the 1960s he became known, among other things, for his work on Berlin, which was published in several illustrated books. His photo of the dead Benno Ohnesorg is famous .

Today Larsson lives and works in Munich.

Exhibitions

  • 1960: Salon International du Portrait , Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
  • 1963: With the camera through East Berlin (touring exhibition of the federal government), Bonn, Hamburg, New York.
  • 1967: Student demonstrations , Galerie Hammer, Berlin.
  • 1998: Berlin - Capital of the Republic , House of Art, Munich.
  • 1998: Photographs from a divided city 1961–1968 , Friedrichswerder Church, Schinkel Museum, Berlin.
  • 2016: Bernard Larsson. Leaving is Entering . Museum of Photography (Berlin) .
    Then in 2017 with an additional title: Berlin Photographs 1961–1968 . Brandenburg Gate Foundation , Berlin.

Publications

  • Impressions . Keller, Starnberg 1961.
  • The whole city of Berlin. Political photos . Nannen, Hamburg 1964.
  • Demonstrations. Berlin model . Voltaire Verlag, Berlin 1967.
  • Berlin, capital of the republic. Photographs from a divided city, 1961–1968 . Exhibition catalog Haus der Kunst , Munich and Steidl, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-88243-597-6 .
  • Berlin | Berlin. The whole city at the time of the construction of the Berlin Wall 1961–1964 . With texts by Marline Otte, Bernard Larsson, Wolf Biermann and Cees Nootebom. Schirmer / Mosel, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8296-0849-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernard Larsson, Berlin-Bilder .: "I'm neither famous nor do I have money" In: BZ, August 18, 2016 [1]
  2. ^ Website of the photographer
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  7. ↑ Published in Süddeutsche Zeitung on August 24, 2016, page 11
personal data
SURNAME Larsson, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg