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Published : Thursday 7 March 2024
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Christer Strömholm is recognised as one of the major figures of 20th century European photography. Strömholm captured his surroundings in black-and-white images that display his integrity, understated humour and a highly personal aesthetic. With an unmistakable sensitivity to human suffering, based on his personal experience, he took photography in a new direction. Sean OHagan, writing in The Guardian, has described him "as the father ofSwedish photography both for his abiding influence and for his role as a teacher."Born in Stockholm, Strömholm discovered photography via graphic art in the late 1940s. During the 1950s and 60s he lived much of the time in Paris, where he developed his particular style of street photography. It was here that he produced his most famous work, Les Amies de Place Blanche, a tribute to a group of young transsexuals with whom he became friends and whose lives he shared over many months. They were very much outsiders, struggling to survive, with their main source of income being from prostitution. In these legendary photographs, shot at night in available light, Strömholm merged street photography and portraiture, depicting them as the close friends theywere, in intimate and honest portraits far from the spectacular or speculative.Les Amies de Place Blanche raises profound issues about sexuality and gender; and, in Strömholms own words, "it is about obtaining the freedom to choose ones own life and identity."
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