A perfectionist in the darkroom, Sandberg was acutely sensitive to the rich spectrum of black and white, and his handmade prints, at times printed on aluminum and canvas, project a powerful physical presence.Īlthough Sandberg is esteemed in his native Norway and throughout Scandinavia and Europe, his oeuvre is less known in the United States and other parts of the world. His pictures are subtle yet transformative, studies of stillness that radiate mystery. Working in a signature modulating gray scale, the late Norwegian photographer Tom Sandberg spent decades rendering the world according to an exacting vision, training his eye on the shapes and forms 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-to plumb the nature of photographic seeing. The first major publication dedicated to one of Norway's most important photographers Torunn Liven is an art historian and writer based in Oslo. of Corrections (2015), and Komplaint Dept. Nickas’s books include Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting (2009) and four collections of his writing and interviews: Live Free or Die (2000), Theft Is Vision (2008), The Dept.
He has organized more than one hundred exhibitions since 1984, including, Tom Sandberg: Photographs 1989–2006. Among his other shows at MoMA PS1 are Wolfgang Tillmans: Freedom from the Known Stephen Shore: American Surfaces Lee Lozano: Drawn from Life, 1961–1971 William Gedney-Christopher Wool: Into the Night a Peter Hujar survey and projects with Charles Atlas, Trisha Donnelly, and Torbjørn Rødland. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, New York Review of Books, and Harper’s, among many other publications.īob Nickas is a writer and curator based in New York. Pico Iyer is author of fifteen books translated into twenty-three languages, including The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (2014). His work is held in the collections of numerous other museums, as well as in public and private collections, including those of Moderna Museet, Stockholm Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo and Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Sandberg’s early work was among the first acquisitions of photography by the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo. In the early 1970s, he studied photography at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, UK, where Thomas Joshua Cooper, Paul Hill, and Minor White were among his teachers. Tom Sandberg (1953–2014 born in Narvik, Norway) worked and lived in Oslo.
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