DESIRING EYE, THE / ÖGATS ÅTRÅ. Photographs from Moderna Museet’s Collection

Author: Wigh, Leif, Teresa Hahr, and Mikael Adsenius, eds
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish/ English
Year Published: 1998
No. of pages: 48
Illustrations: 15 Color Illustrations. 9 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”x 6 1/2”
Weight:
ISBN: 9171005692
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh.
Code: 3801

Price: $19.50

This display of 224 mostly 19th century photographs from the Moderna Museet’s collection of photography and photo prints based on art, is only the tip of a massive, still growing and largely unexposed iceberg, yet it gives a clear indication of the range and competence of the whole. Above all, the Desiring Eye focuses on the obsessive compulsion of the photographer to fix the fleeting, transient sensations of the world around him into some kind of chemical and artistic certainty. Throughout the entire history of photography from the 1840s to the present, one constant is the desire of the photographer to capture an image which works and exists at many levels. Included among many Julia Margaret Cameron, Nadar, Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, etc.