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At the age of 21, he traveled to Paris and was there for eight years as a freelance photographer, during which time in 1954 he journeyed from to [[Algiers]], across the [[Sahara]], [[Niger]], [[Cameroon]], [[French Equatorial Africa]] and the [[Belgian Congo]], [[Nairobi]] in Kenya, [[Rhodesia]] and [[South Africa]], to [[Madagascar]] and then [[Sudan]] and [[Egypt]] to photograph for Olle Strandberg's book ''Jambo,''<ref>{{Cite book |last=1910-1956. |first=Strandberg, Olle, |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/186240285 |title=Jambo |date=1954 |publisher=Rabén & Sjögren/Vi |oclc=186240285}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=J.B. |date=19 August 1956 |title=A Swede Looks At Africa |pages=139 |work=Tampa Bay Times}}</ref> later reissued by Houghton and Miffin<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 September 1956 |title=African Tour |pages=93 |work=Tulsa World}}</ref> and by international publishers. One reviewer remarked that "The photography by Rune Hassner adds immensely to the reader's enjoyment of the book."<ref>{{Cite news |last=W.D.M. |date=4 November 1956 |title=Safari Sees All Africa but the Obvious |pages=71 |work=Democrat and Chronicle}}</ref>
At the age of 21, he traveled to Paris and was there for eight years as a freelance photographer, during which time in 1954 he journeyed from to [[Algiers]], across the [[Sahara]], [[Niger]], [[Cameroon]], [[French Equatorial Africa]] and the [[Belgian Congo]], [[Nairobi]] in Kenya, [[Rhodesia]] and [[South Africa]], to [[Madagascar]] and then [[Sudan]] and [[Egypt]] to photograph for Olle Strandberg's book ''Jambo,''<ref>{{Cite book |last=1910-1956. |first=Strandberg, Olle, |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/186240285 |title=Jambo |date=1954 |publisher=Rabén & Sjögren/Vi |oclc=186240285}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=J.B. |date=19 August 1956 |title=A Swede Looks At Africa |pages=139 |work=Tampa Bay Times}}</ref> later reissued by Houghton and Miffin<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 September 1956 |title=African Tour |pages=93 |work=Tulsa World}}</ref> and by international publishers. One reviewer remarked that "The photography by Rune Hassner adds immensely to the reader's enjoyment of the book."<ref>{{Cite news |last=W.D.M. |date=4 November 1956 |title=Safari Sees All Africa but the Obvious |pages=71 |work=Democrat and Chronicle}}</ref>


In 1956 he worked in [[Hawaii]] as a [[Unit still photographer|stills photographer]] on a documentary film production there.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 July 1956 |title=Territory Still Mecca For Writers, Cameramen |pages=27 |work=The Honolulu Advertiser}}</ref> He returned to Sweden in 1958 and became one of the founders that year of the professional collective [[Tio fotografer]] ('Ten Photographers') with Sten Didrik Bellander (1921–2001), Harry Dittmar, Sven Gillsäter (1921–2001), [[Georg Oddner]](1923–2007), Lennart Olson (1925–2010), [[Hans Hammarskiöld]] (1925–2012), [[Hans Malmberg]], Tore Johnson, and [[Pål Nils Nilsson]], and their subsequent photo agency ''Tiofoto''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=28 April 1960 |title='Fresh' Impressions Of U-M |pages=56 |work=The Miami News}}</ref> He spoke alongside [[Ralph Morse]], Ken Heyman, [[Milton H. Greene|Milton Greene]] and [[Wayne F. Miller|Wayne Miller]] at the annual Photojournalism Conference at the [[University of Miami]] in April 1960.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bixler |first=Alice |date=17 April 1960 |title=Camera Angles |pages=67 |work=The Miami News}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=28 April 1960 |title='Fresh' Impressions Of U-M |pages=56 |work=The Miami News}}</ref>
In 1956 he worked in [[Hawaii]] as a [[Unit still photographer|stills photographer]] on a documentary film production there.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 July 1956 |title=Territory Still Mecca For Writers, Cameramen |pages=27 |work=The Honolulu Advertiser}}</ref> He returned to Sweden in 1958 and became one of the founders that year of the professional collective [[Tio fotografer]] ('Ten Photographers') with Sten Didrik Bellander (1921–2001), Harry Dittmar, Sven Gillsäter (1921–2001), [[Georg Oddner]](1923–2007), Lennart Olson (1925–2010), [[Hans Hammarskiöld]] (1925–2012), [[Hans Malmberg]], Tore Johnson, and [[Pål Nils Nilsson]], and their subsequent photo agency ''Tiofoto''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=28 April 1960 |title='Fresh' Impressions Of U-M |pages=56 |work=The Miami News}}</ref> The co-operative shared office, studio, and darkroom facilities in Stockholm, but otherwise remained independent in style and approach.<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 March 1972 |title=Ten Top Swedish Photographers Exhibit At West Hills College |pages=2 |work=The Lemoore Advance}}</ref> He spoke alongside [[Ralph Morse]], Ken Heyman, [[Milton H. Greene|Milton Greene]] and [[Wayne F. Miller|Wayne Miller]] at the annual Photojournalism Conference at the [[University of Miami]] in April 1960.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bixler |first=Alice |date=17 April 1960 |title=Camera Angles |pages=67 |work=The Miami News}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=28 April 1960 |title='Fresh' Impressions Of U-M |pages=56 |work=The Miami News}}</ref>


The group Tio fotografer was influential in Swedish photography and they regularly exhibited at significant venues for photography. Hassner and other members were included in a US Library of Congress traveling exhibition during 1972,<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 February 1972 |title=Swedish Photo Exhibit Comes To West Hills |pages=7 |work=The Lemoore Advance}}</ref> and the whole group was presented at the [[Hasselblad]] Centre in 1998.
The group Tio fotografer was influential in Swedish photography and they regularly exhibited at significant venues for photography. Hassner's photographs of workers in China were included amongst work of the other members in a US Library of Congress traveling exhibition during 1972,<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 February 1972 |title=Swedish Photo Exhibit Comes To West Hills |pages=7 |work=The Lemoore Advance}}</ref> and the whole group was presented at the [[Hasselblad]] Centre in 1998.


== Academic ==
== Academic ==

Revision as of 04:46, 24 January 2023

Rune Hassner
Rne Hassner at 31
Born(1928-08-13)13 August 1928
Östersund, Sweden
Died20 July 2003(2003-07-20) (aged 74)
Stockholm, Sweden
NationalitySwedish
OccupationPhotographers
Years active1947–1990s
Known forphotojournalism

Rune Hassner (13 August 1928 – 19 July 2003) was a Swedish photographer and film director.[1][2] He directed around fifty documentaries and two feature films, including Myglaren,[3] and illustrated numbers of books and articles with his photography.

Career

Rune Hassner went as a student with Rolf Winquist to Ateljé Uggla in Stockholm.[4] He started at the age of 19 in 1947 as a press photographer in Östersund.

At the age of 21, he traveled to Paris and was there for eight years as a freelance photographer, during which time in 1954 he journeyed from to Algiers, across the Sahara, Niger, Cameroon, French Equatorial Africa and the Belgian Congo, Nairobi in Kenya, Rhodesia and South Africa, to Madagascar and then Sudan and Egypt to photograph for Olle Strandberg's book Jambo,[5][6] later reissued by Houghton and Miffin[7] and by international publishers. One reviewer remarked that "The photography by Rune Hassner adds immensely to the reader's enjoyment of the book."[8]

In 1956 he worked in Hawaii as a stills photographer on a documentary film production there.[9] He returned to Sweden in 1958 and became one of the founders that year of the professional collective Tio fotografer ('Ten Photographers') with Sten Didrik Bellander (1921–2001), Harry Dittmar, Sven Gillsäter (1921–2001), Georg Oddner(1923–2007), Lennart Olson (1925–2010), Hans Hammarskiöld (1925–2012), Hans Malmberg, Tore Johnson, and Pål Nils Nilsson, and their subsequent photo agency Tiofoto.[10] The co-operative shared office, studio, and darkroom facilities in Stockholm, but otherwise remained independent in style and approach.[11] He spoke alongside Ralph Morse, Ken Heyman, Milton Greene and Wayne Miller at the annual Photojournalism Conference at the University of Miami in April 1960.[12][10]

The group Tio fotografer was influential in Swedish photography and they regularly exhibited at significant venues for photography. Hassner's photographs of workers in China were included amongst work of the other members in a US Library of Congress traveling exhibition during 1972,[13] and the whole group was presented at the Hasselblad Centre in 1998.

Academic

Rune Hassner was head of the Gothenburg School of Photography from the start in 1982/83 and of the Hasselblad centre in Gothenburg 1988-94. He became an honorary doctor in 1997 at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Gothenburg.

Personal life

Rune Hassner was born in Östersund and married Eva Mari Hassner (born 1933).[14]

Filmography

  • Jump up (1966)
  • Myglaren (1966)
  • Hjälparen (1967)
  • Photo by Boubat (1967)
  • Bilder för miljoner (1970)
  • Ansikten och fragment av blommor, about Rolf Winqvist (1970)
  • Brassai (1971)
  • Pittsburgh – porträtt av en stad, about Eugene W. Smith (1971)
  • Realismens triumfer – Honoré de Balzac (1975)
  • Kina mot år 2000 (1978)
  • Bilden som vapen I, II och III (1978, 1982, 1988)

Publications

  • Aurén, Sven Anders Göte; Hassner, Rune (1950). Parispromenad. Wahlström & Widstrand. OCLC 35454274.
  • Rune., Hassner, (1951). Sköna Frankrike. Foto: Rune Hassner; text: Sven Stolpe. Wahlström & Widstrand. OCLC 35588654.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Hassner, Rune (1953). Liftare och läckergommar. Wahlström & Widstrand. OCLC 186173357.
  • Strandberg, Olle, (1954). Jambo. Rabén & Sjögren/Vi. OCLC 186240285.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)[15]
  • Aurén, Sven (1957). Paris och parisarna. Wahlström & Widstrand. OCLC 186100230.
  • Det nya Kina (1957)
  • Strandberg, Olle (1958). O. Lättjans Öar : En Färd Till Karibiska Sjön Med Komubus I Kölvattnet (in Swedish). Stockholm: Raben & Sjögren-Tidningen Vi. OCLC 470128697.
  • Hassner, Rune; Andersson, Sven O. (1962). Vår Indiska By. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren. OCLC 28492758.
  • Riis, Jacob August; Hassner, Rune (1987). Jacob A. Riis: Socialreporter Med Kamera (in Swedish). Lucida. ISBN 978-91-87300-00-4.
  • Hassner, Rune (1977). Bilder för miljoner : bildtryck och massframställda bilder från de första blockböckerna, oljetrycken och fotografierna till den moderna pressens nyhetsbilder och fotoreportage (in Swedish). Internet Archive. [Stockholm] : Sveriges radio : Rabén & Sjögren. ISBN 978-91-29-49919-3.
  • Hassner, Rune; Jonsson, Rune; Myrdal, Jan; Örnberg, Sune (1993). Rune Hassner : Foto (in Swedish). Stockholm, Sweden: Nilsson & Bergholm,. ISBN 9789163019210.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  • Hassner, Rune (1990-01-01). "SSSR na strojke". Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger. 29: 167. doi:10.7146/fof.v29i1.40936. ISSN 2246-6061.
  • Hassner R. Bilder & Ord : Bibliografi Filmografi Utställningsförteckning Med Mera. Göteborg: Konst- och bildvetenskapliga institutionen Univ. 2002.

References

  1. ^ "Rune Hassner". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 February 2010.
  2. ^ Sveriges befolkning 1970, (CD-ROM version 1.04) Sveriges Släktforskarförbund 2003
  3. ^ "Fotografen Rune Hassner död" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 21 July 2003. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
  4. ^ Lewenhaupt. (2009). Bilden av modet. Malmö: Arena Bokförlaget. pp. 40–43. ISBN 9789178432875. OCLC 317754272.
  5. ^ 1910-1956., Strandberg, Olle, (1954). Jambo. Rabén & Sjögren/Vi. OCLC 186240285. {{cite book}}: |last= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ J.B. (19 August 1956). "A Swede Looks At Africa". Tampa Bay Times. p. 139.
  7. ^ "African Tour". Tulsa World. 16 September 1956. p. 93.
  8. ^ W.D.M. (4 November 1956). "Safari Sees All Africa but the Obvious". Democrat and Chronicle. p. 71.
  9. ^ "Territory Still Mecca For Writers, Cameramen". The Honolulu Advertiser. 6 July 1956. p. 27.
  10. ^ a b "'Fresh' Impressions Of U-M". The Miami News. 28 April 1960. p. 56.
  11. ^ "Ten Top Swedish Photographers Exhibit At West Hills College". The Lemoore Advance. 9 March 1972. p. 2.
  12. ^ Bixler, Alice (17 April 1960). "Camera Angles". The Miami News. p. 67.
  13. ^ "Swedish Photo Exhibit Comes To West Hills". The Lemoore Advance. 24 February 1972. p. 7.
  14. ^ Sveriges befolkning 1970, (CD-ROM version 1.04) Sveriges Släktforskarförbund 2003
  15. ^ Nordholm, Margaret (25 April 1957). "For Courier Readers : Strandberg Reports on African Excursion". The Courier. p. 8.
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