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Exhibition: Harry Opstrup • Impressions from Greenland |
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The exhibition is on display june 1 – july 31 2015 Paludan Bogcafe Fiolestraede 10 1171 Copenhagen K opening hours: monday-friday 9:00-22:00 saturday-sunday 10:00-22:00 free admission locate here |
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The exhibition was first displayed in Kalaallit Illuutaat - The Greenlandic Hous in connection with Copenhagen Photo Festival 2014, with great success.
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Picture by mastershot photographer Mogens Folden used on Louisiana.dk |
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The picture shows the founder of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Knud W. Jensen in a joyful, relaxed atmosphere with Louisiana's two architects Jørgen Bo and Vilhelm Wohlert. The photograph was taken by a freelance press photographer Mogens Folden in 1958. The librarian of the Louisiana library and photo collection Sidse Buck says that it is the only known photograph of the architects along with the founder Knud W. Jensen. Sidse Buch expresses her great delight that the mastershot archive even contain more previously unknown photographs from the making of the art museum. |
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| Photographs of the architectural model and the Louisiana Cafe under construction are unique, these pictures we have never seen before, says Sidse Buck. | |||
New acquisition - Jens Anton Thygesen photographs from East Greenland |
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mastershot has acquired a collection of 35 mm color slides and negatives taken by Jens Anton Thygesen 1946-1989. He grew up in Gjern, and had a passion for archeology, art and nature. At the age of 17 he began to take on photography seriously and had the intention to become an animal photographer. He went to Greenland for the first time in 1972, here he later met Dorte who became his wife, and led him permanently to Scoresbysund, one of the most isolated settlements in East Greenland. In Scoresbysund he lived as a hunter and was an important part of the small community by running a contracting business. During a hunt in 1989 he tragically lost his life, probably because he was attacked by a walrus. |
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| His photographs are first-hand accounts of everyday family and hunter life, as experienced on the edge of the world – many of which have a storytelling cinematic poetry. | |||
Exhibition: Harry Opstrup • Impressions from Greenland |
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"It was so cold and quiet you could hear a snow-bunting more than a mile away." That's how Harry Opstrup described his meeting with the striking silence and tranquility of the Greenlandic nature. The exhibited photographs were taken, during a series of photo expeditions to Greenland, which he made in the late 1970s. His visits stretched from Uummannaq in the north to Qaqortoq in the south, on the west coast of Greenland. |
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The exhibition is on display june 5 – july 18 2014 Kalaallit Illuutaat - The Greenlandic House Løvstraede 6 1007 Copenhagen K opening hours: monday-thursday 10:00-16:00, friday 10:00-16:00 free admission locate here |
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The exhibition is the first major Harry Opstrup exhibition since the late 1990s. Through its themes, Man and nature, Portraits, Towns and Settlements, Light and Reflections, Nature, Abstract and Flowers, it will try to show the span in Harry Opstrup's photographic lifework.
The exhibition is part of Copenhagen Photo Festival 2014
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Harry Opstrup images used in UNESCO application |
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On the 20th January 2014 cultural minister Marianne Jelved on behalf of Denmark applied for the inclusion on the UNESCO list of World Heritage for the Parforce Hunting landscape in North Zealand.
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The 3 motives are, cover photo: Deer flock seen with The Hermitage visible through the mist in the background. Full page photo 1: The Hermitage in the mist by sunset. Full page photo 2: Deer does in front of old oak. A decision on the application wil be announced at the end of 2015. |
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