Tom Sandberg (14 September 1953 – 5 February 2014) was a Norwegian art photographer.
Life and work
Sandberg was born in
Narvik
( se, Áhkanjárga) is the third-largest municipality in Nordland county, Norway, by population. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Narvik. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Ankenesstranda, Ball ...
, but grew up in the
Grorud Valley in eastern
Oslo. In the early 1970s, he studied photography at
Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, England.
He worked as a photographer from the 1970s. According to ''Juxtapoz'', with his "signature modulating gray scale", he made photographs of "the everyday—dark abstractions of asphalt and sea, the hard edges of an automobile, an ominously curved tunnel, an anonymous figure casting a shadow ... His pictures are subtle yet transformative, studies of stillness that radiate mystery."
Publications
*''Fotografier''. Oslo: Oktober, 1995. .
*''Tom Sandberg – Photography''. Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, 2000. .
*''Tom Sandberg: Photographs''. New York:
Aperture, 2022. .
Films
*''Bortenfor språket/Beyond language'' (NRK, 2000) – by Nils Petter Lotherington
Solo exhibitions
*''Tom Sandberg: Photographs 1989–2006'',
MoMA PS1, New York, 2007
Collections
Sandberg's work is held in the following permanent collections:
*
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden: 5 prints (as of 6 January 2023)
*
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway: 61 objects (as of 6 January 2023)
References
External links
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1953 births
2014 deaths
People from Narvik
Photographers from Oslo
Alumni of Nottingham Trent University
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