A memorable day at Falsterbo Photo Art Museum
- Text & bild: Lars Hector
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The summer exhibition "MOVING ON" opened on July 3. We were immediately captivated by the encounter between Agneta Gynning's sculptures and photographic art from the Claes & Christina Lindquist collection, a unique exhibition where emotions and form play together in a powerful way.
Agneta Gynning's artistic work is strongly present. Her sculptures unite power and vulnerability and create a living encounter between man, nature, movement and emotion. In the adjacent rooms, world-class photographic art awaits from Claes & Christina Lindquist's private collection, acquired over about 25 years. From the dreamy desert image to the portraits with butterflies, everything carries its own magic.
Falsterbo Fotokunstmuseum is a destination in itself. Behind the museum is the Malmö couple Lindquist, who have created a place for photographic art in Vellinge's impressive architecturally designed premises. With over 700 original photographs, the collection is unique in the Øresund region.
Thank you, Agneta, for the art, and thank you, Claes & Christina, for opening the door to this world!
The exhibition runs from July 3 to September 20, 2026 and is definitely worth experiencing on site.
About Falsterbo Museum of Photography
Falsterbo Fotokunstmuseum's collection consists almost exclusively, with a few exceptions, of photographers' photographs. The basic exhibition collection consists of approximately 550 original photographs. All are signed. Almost all are numbered. They are produced by the photographer himself. With a few exceptions, the artisanal "Vintage Prints" are in limited, signed editions. The work of collecting the photographs in the collection has been ongoing for over 15 years.
The main part of the collection is fashion photography, but there are also portraits, photographs considered contemporary art, and documentary photographs. The majority of the photographs are taken by internationally renowned photographers, as well as around 70 photographs by Swedish photographers.
The most famous international names are: Edward Steichen (1879 – 1973)
Steichen was a pioneer in photography. He trained as a painter but began taking photographs as early as 1899. In the early 1920s he appeared frequently in Vogue, where his fashion photographs were groundbreaking. Steichen later became head of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for many years.
Irving Penn (1917 – 2009)
Penn was an innovator in fashion, portrait and still life photography and one of the leading photographers of his time. He shot mainly in his studio, with clean, simple backgrounds and a minimalist style that nevertheless pioneered fashion photography. He worked for Vogue for much of his career, later developing his style in collaboration with Vogue photographer Phyllis Posnick.
Helmut Newton (1920 – 2004)
Newton is known as a fashion photographer for his black-and-white, provocative photographs that have been published in Vogue and other fashion magazines. He is a legend in modern photography with his norm-breaking, gender-defying photographs of nude or clothed, independent and strong women. In the 1930s he studied fashion and portrait photography with Yva, one of Berlin's leading society photographers. He was often published in Elle and Vogue magazines. He often attempted to recreate the forbidden and scandalous – famous people caught red-handed.
Horst P. Horst (1906 – 1999)
Horst was a German-born American fashion photographer and one of the early masters of photography. He is best known for his glamorous images of women and fashion, in which Horst meticulously posed his models in elaborate, sophisticated tableaux. His unique aesthetic can be described as a blend of surrealism and neoclassicism, with a reverence for ancient Greek ideals and a focus on form and mystery, as well as a vibrant sensuality.
Richard Avedon (1923 – 2004)
Richard Avedon was for many years a leading figure in modern photography. His work in Harper's Bazaar and especially in Vogue has contributed to a new view of fashion photography and graphic design. His advertising photography impresses with its visual elegance, and as a portrait photographer Richard Avedon is among the very best of modern times. He often photographed outside the studio with models in motion. He is represented at, among others, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Albert Watson (1942 –)
Albert Watson is a Scottish photographer who mixes art, fashion and commercial photography and has done more than 200 covers for Vogue. Today he lives in New York with a large studio. He has expressed his photographic philosophy as - the bigger the personality, the simpler the image - as his images reflect a simple versatility. Watson has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Milan, Kunst Haus Wien in Vienna, City Art Center in Edinburgh, Fotomuseum Antwerpen (FOMU), NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf, Forma Galleria in Milan, Fotografiska in Stockholm and Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow. His photographs are included in the permanent collections of, among others, the National Portrait Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC.
