Hans Hammarskiöld

Swedish photographer

Hans Arvid Hammarskiöld (17 May 1925 – 12 November 2012) was a Swedish professional photographer. He was active in most genres—for many years he worked as an industrial photographer, but was especially noted for his portraits.

Career

Hammarskiöld was born in 1925 in Stockholm. His breakthrough as a professional photographer came in the 1950s when he worked all over the world.^{[citation needed]} In 1955 his work, along with that of his wife Caroline Hebbe, was selected by Edward Steichen^[1] for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition and book The Family of Man,^[2] seen by 9 million visitors. Hammarskiöld worked 1954-1956 for British Vogue.^[3]

Hammarskiöld was the last surviving member of the group Tio fotografer (Ten Photographers), which formed in 1958 and was influential in Swedish photography for decades as the illustrations agency Tiofoto. The group included Sten Didrik Bellander (1921–2001), Harry Dittmar, Sven Gillsäter (1921–2001), Rune Hassner (1928–2003), Hans Malmberg (1927-1977), Pål-Nils Nilsson (1929–2002), Georg Oddner (1923-2007), and Lennart Olson (1925–2010).

He is best known as a portraitist and art photographer. Examples of Hammarskiöld's portraiture are his humorous photographs of pop artist Claes Oldenburg in 1966 carrying a huge tube of toothpaste, Pontus Hultén shouting and dressed in an over-decorated coat in 1984, and his profile portrait of Professor Ragnar Josephson in 1965.

Recognition

In 2009, a selection of seventy of Hammarskiöld's portraits was on display at the National Museum in Stockholm.

His portraits were later donated to the National Swedish Portrait Gallery.

Death

Hammarskiöld died in 2012 in Lidingö, east of Stockholm, after a short illness,^[4] and is buried in the memorial grove at Lidingö cemetery.^[3]

Bibliography

Värmland det sköna ('Country Beauty') 1951
Stockholmskärlek ('I Love Stockholm') 1953
Objektivt sett ('Objectively Speaking') 1955
Billa och jag ('Billa and Me') 1959 (reissued 2009)
Lillasyster och jag ('Little Sister and Me') 1960
Promenad på Djursholm ('Walking Around Djursholm') 1964
Hans Hammarskiöld 1979
Storsudret 1987
Subjektivt sett ('Subjectively Speaking') 1993
Nära Linné ('Near Linné') 1993
Stockholms fasader ('Stockholm's Facades') 1993 (with Anita Theorell)
Fasader i Göteborg ('Facades in Gothenburg') 1996
Stockholm 1997
Minnets stigar ('The Paths of Memory') 2001 (with Anita Theorell and Per Wästberg)
En gång i Sverige ('Once in Sweden') 2003
Resa i tysta rum ('Journeys to Silent Places') 2004 (with Anita Theorell and Per Wästberg)
Pål Svensson, skulptör ('Pål Svensson, Sculptor') 2005 (with Eva Ström)
Foto Hammarskiöld : tiden och ljuset ('Hammarskiöld Photographs: Time and Light') 2008
Profiler ('Portraits') 2009

References

^ Kristen Gresh (2005) The European roots of The Family of Man, History of Photography, 29:4, 331-343, DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2005.10442815
^ Steichen, Edward; Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973, (organizer.); Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, (writer of foreword.); Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997, (writer of added text.); Lionni, Leo, 1910-1999, (book designer.); Mason, Jerry, (editor.); Stoller, Ezra, (photographer.); Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1955), The family of man : the photographic exhibition, Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation {{citation}}: |author6= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ ^a ^b Lewenhaupt (2009). Bilden av modet. Malmö: Arena Bokförlaget. ISBN 978-91-7843-287-5. OCLC 317754272.
^ Fotografen Hans Hammarskiöld död, Dagens Nyheter, November 13, 2012.

August Prize for Best Non-Fiction

1990s

1992: Gyllene äpplen – Gunnar Broberg et al.
1993: Ofredsår – Peter Englund
1994: Musiken i Sverige I–IV – Leif Jonsson et al.
1995: Tusen år i trädgården. Från sörmländska herrgårdar och bakgårdar – Maria Flinck
1996: Spåren av kungens män – Maja Hagerman
1997: I skuggan av framtiden – Sven-Eric Liedman
1998: Svenska vägar till S:t Petersburg – Bengt Jangfeldt
1999: Engelska – öspråk, världsspråk, trendspråk – Jan Svartvik

2000s

2000: Stora döden – Dick Harrison
2001: Minnets stigar – Hans Hammarskjöld, Anita Theorell & Per Wästberg
2002: Gustav Vasa – landsfader eller tyrann? – Lars-Olof Larsson
2003: Idéer om livet – Nils Uddenberg
2004: Europas idéhistoria 1492–1918: Världens ordning och Mörkret i människan – Sverker Sörlin
2005: Ninas resa – Lena Einhorn
2006: Qin – Cecilia Lindqvist
2007: Med livet som insats – Bengt Jangfeldt
2008: Regi Bergman – Paul Duncan & Bengt Wanselius
2009: Att överleva dagen – Brutus Östling & Susanne Åkesson

2010s

2010: Den röda grevinnan – Yvonne Hirdman
2011: Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar – Elisabeth Åsbrink
2012: Det står ett rum här och väntar på dig – Berättelsen om Raoul Wallenberg – Ingrid Carlberg
2013: The Expedition: The Forgotten Story of a Polar Tragedy – Bea Uusma
2014: Naturlära – Lars Lerin
2015: Min europeiska familj. De senaste 54 000 åren – Karin Bojs