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== Filmmaker ==
== Filmmaker ==
From 1965, in his late thirties, Hassner produced many documentaries for Swedish television, including programs on photographers Rolf Winquist and [[Brassaï]] and ''Bilder for miljoner'' ('Images for the Millions' was the English version he produced for the School of Journalism, University of Minnesota). He made two feature films for television with the writer [[Jan Myrdal]]; ''Myglaren'' (1966) and ''Hjalparen'' (1968)<ref name=":2" />
From 1965, in his late thirties, Hassner produced many documentaries for Swedish television, including programs on photographers Rolf Winquist and [[Brassaï]] and ''Bilder for miljoner'' ('Images for the Millions' was the English version he produced for the School of Journalism, University of Minnesota). He made two feature films for television with the writer [[Jan Myrdal]]; ''Myglaren'' (1966) and ''Hjalparen'' (1968),<ref name=":2" /> and in 1978 collaborated with him on on six films about China for Swedish television,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Myrdal |first=Jan |title=China Notebook 1975-1978 |last2=Kessle |first2=Gun |last3=vom Dorp |first3=Rolf |publisher=Liberator Press |year=1979 |isbn=9780930720582 |location=Chicago |pages=8}}</ref> Myrdal having dedicated his book ''Chinese Journey,'' photographed by his wife [[Gun Kessle]]'',''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Myrdal |first=Jan |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1164733949 |title=Chinese journey : Photographs by G. K. Text by J. M. |last2=Kessle |first2=Gun |date=1965 |publisher=Pantheon Books, a division of Random House |pages=5 |oclc=1164733949}}</ref> to Hassner in 1965.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Murphey |first=Rhoads |last2=Kessle |first2=Gun |last3=Myrdal |first3=Jan |date=June 1967 |title=Chinese Journey |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1793299 |journal=The Geographical Journal |volume=133 |issue=2 |pages=228 |doi=10.2307/1793299 |issn=0016-7398}}</ref>


== Academic ==
== Academic ==

Revision as of 04:18, 25 January 2023

Rune Hassner
Rune Hassner at 31 in America
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

Born on 13 August in Östersund Rune Hassner took up photography in 1942. He started profession work at the age of 19 in 1947 as a press photographer for Uisntidningen and Ostersunds-Postenin in Östersund.[4]

From 1947-9 he worked assisting fashion and advertising photographer Rolf Winquist, at the Ateljé Uggla (Uggla Studio) in Stockholm.[5]

At the age of 21, he traveled to Paris and was there for eight years as a freelance photographer undertaking reportage and press work. He exhibited in 1949 with some of the other young photographers who were to form the cooperative Tio fotografer.[6] He first exhibtied solo at the Rotohallen, Stockholm[4] and published his first book, Parispromenad.[7]

At 26, his street photography, made with a Rolleiflex, was published in Camera magazine in 1954, with a commentary in which he discussed his love of making candid images in the city environment, his technique and motivation;

For these photos I used a Rolleiflex, ultra-sensitive film, often ordinary developing paper to get details even in poor lighting; camera set at 3m, exposure usually ½s sec and aperture 5.6 or 8; I carried the camera around in my hand, always with one finger on the trigger, and often snapped immediately without consulting the viewfinder. As long as you carry the device inconspicuously in your hand, you can get very close to people without them reacting [ . . . ] Tired of working in the studio with the camera on wheels, with a lot of lamps, with large format negatives, retouching and smiling for the public, the opportunity and freedom to observe the real face of the people on the street drew me.[8]

He journeyed with writer Olle Strandberg 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 Strandberg's book Jambo,[9][10] later reissued by Houghton and Miffin[11] and by international publishers, with his African pictures being included in other publications.[12][13] One reviewer remarked that the "photography by Rune Hassner adds immensely to the reader's enjoyment of the book."[14]

In 1956 he worked in Hawaii as a stills photographer on a documentary film production there,[15] and traveled in Central America, India, USA, Australia and Asia.[4] The newspaper Svenska Dagbladet awarded him for his photography in 1957.[4] 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 in 1959.[16] The co-operative shared office, studio, and darkroom facilities in Stockholm, but otherwise remained independent in style and approach.[17]

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 1971-2,[18][19][20] and the whole group was presented at the Hasselblad Centre in 1998.

Filmmaker

From 1965, in his late thirties, Hassner produced many documentaries for Swedish television, including programs on photographers Rolf Winquist and Brassaï and Bilder for miljoner ('Images for the Millions' was the English version he produced for the School of Journalism, University of Minnesota). He made two feature films for television with the writer Jan Myrdal; Myglaren (1966) and Hjalparen (1968),[4] and in 1978 collaborated with him on on six films about China for Swedish television,[21] Myrdal having dedicated his book Chinese Journey, photographed by his wife Gun Kessle,[22] to Hassner in 1965.[23]

Academic

Hassner spoke alongside Ralph Morse, Ken Heyman, Milton Greene and Wayne Miller at the annual Photojournalism Conference at the University of Miami in April 1960,[24][16] and in February 1973 again presented in the United States, in a panel 'Photojournalism: A Matter of Life and Death' with Richard Olsenius and R. Smith Schuneman in conjunction with the exhibition "Margaret Bourke-White: Photojournalist" at the Walker Art Center.

Hassner was head of the first university photography course, Institutionen for Fotografi, at Goteborgs Universitet from the start in 1982/83 and of the Hasselblad centre in Gothenburg 1988-94.[25] He became an honorary doctor in 1997 at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Gothenburg. Naomi Rosenblum notes that in developing collections at the University, Hassner "encouraged interest in the history of American and European photojournalism and social documentation through his extensive curatorial, research, and publishing activities."[26]

Personal life

Rune Hassner was born in Östersund and married Eva Mari Hassner (born 1933).[27]

Awards

  • 1957: Prize bestowed by Stockholm newspaper Svenska Dagbladet[4]

Legacy

In 1998 the Hasselblad Centre acquired Hassner's photographic library.[6]

Exhibitions

  • 1951: Solo exhibition at the Rotohallen, Stockholm[4]
  • 1951: Jeunes Photographes Suedois, Kodak, Paris[4]
  • 1951 12–29 July: Subjektive Fotografie. Staatlichen Schule für Kunst und Handwerk, Saarbrücken[28]
  • 1954, 27 November– 27 January 1955: Subjektive Fotografie 2. Staatlichen Schule für Kunst und Handwerk, Saarbrücken[28]
  • 1955, 18 July - Spring 1957: C.S. Association Travelling Exhibition of International Photography, 1955–57
  • 1957: Internationale Biennale, Venezia[4]
  • 1958: FOTOKONST 1958, City Art Gallery, Lund, Sweden[4]
  • 1963, 27 August– 2 September: Photography 63 / An International Exhibition. An invitational exhibition.  A 25 member nominating committee identified photographers under 40 years of age who were invited to submit three photographs each. New York State Exposition[28]
  • 1971-2: Contemporary Photographs From Sweden. US Library of Congress traveling exhibition[17][18][19][20][24]
  • 1973, 19 May–2 September: Rune Hassner Lima. Catalogue published by Fotografiska museet, Moderna museet. Katalognummer 109. Text of catalog by Rune Hassner, captions to pictures by Sven Johansson.[28]
  • 1976:TIO FOTOGRAFER, Gal. Aronowitsch, Stockholm[4]
  • 1977: TIO FOTOGRAFER, R.I.P., Arles[4]
  • 1982: 11 Fotografos Suecos, Consejo Mexicano de Fotografia, México[4]
  • 1983: Rune Hassner. Solo traveling exhibition. Fotohuset, Göteborg; Pentax Gallery, Stockholm; Västerbottens Museum, Umeä; Ornsköldsvik[4]
  • 1984: Subjektive Fotografie: Images Of the 50's. Fotografische Sammlung in Museum Folkwang.[29]

Collections

  • Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden[4]
  • Library of Congress, Washington, DC. USA
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris[4]
  • Norsk Fotohistorisk Forening, Oslo[4]

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), 13 programs for television on the history of the caricature and political imagery, with Jan Myrdal, with 7 supplementary broadcasts.

Publications

  • Aurén, Sven Anders Göte; Hassner, Rune (1950). Parispromenad. Wahlström & Widstrand. OCLC 35454274.
  • Hassner, Rune (1951). Sköna Frankrike. Foto: Rune Hassner; text: Sven Stolpe. Wahlström & Widstrand. OCLC 35588654.
  • Hassner, Rune (1953). Liftare och läckergommar. Wahlström & Widstrand. OCLC 186173357.
  • Olle, Strandberg (1954). Jambo. Rabén & Sjögren/Vi. OCLC 186240285.[30][31]
  • 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.
  • Hassner, Rune (1971). André Kertész: Fotografien, 1913-1971. Stockholm: Moderna Museet.
  • Riis, Jacob August; Hassner, Rune (1987). Jacob A. Riis: Socialreporter Med Kamera (in Swedish). Lucida. ISBN 978-91-87300-00-4.[32]
  • 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.
  • Hasselblad Center; Hassner, Rune (1989). Rolf Winquist : Porträttör : En Återblick På En Ledande Svensk Ateljéfotografs Arbeten 1940-1968 (in Swedish). Göteborg: Hasselblad Centre. OCLC 81747003.
  • Hassner, Rune; Jonsson, Rune; Myrdal, Jan; Örnberg, Sune (1993). Rune Hassner : Foto (in Swedish). Stockholm, Sweden: Nilsson & Bergholm. ISBN 9789163019210.
  • 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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Michel, Auer; Auer, Michele (1985). Photographers encyclopaedia international from the beginnings to the present = ncyclopédie internationale des photographes : des débuts à nos jours (in English and French). Switzerland: Editions Camera Obscura. ISBN 2-8258-0126-7. OCLC 496550025.
  5. ^ Lewenhaupt. (2009). Bilden av modet. Malmö: Arena Bokförlaget. pp. 40–43. ISBN 9789178432875. OCLC 317754272.
  6. ^ a b Warren, Lynne, ed. (2006). Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography (Two-volume ed.). New York: Routledge. pp. 667, 1129. ISBN 1-57958-393-8. OCLC 60402034.
  7. ^ Aurén, Sven Anders Göte; Hassner, Rune (1950). Parispromenad. Wahlström & Widstrand. OCLC 35454274.
  8. ^ Porter, Allan (1982). Camera : die 50er Jahre : Photographie und Texte (in German). München: C.J. Bucher. pp. 36, 59, 76, 143. ISBN 3-7658-0399-5. OCLC 1193024949.
  9. ^ Strandberg, Olle (1954). Jambo. Rabén & Sjögren/Vi. OCLC 186240285.
  10. ^ J.B. (19 August 1956). "A Swede Looks At Africa". Tampa Bay Times. p. 139.
  11. ^ "African Tour". Tulsa World. 16 September 1956. p. 93.
  12. ^ Brown, Leslie; Thompson, Kenneth (1965). Africa : a natural history. London: Chanticleer Press, Hamilton. p. 107. OCLC 1046585791.
  13. ^ Le Clézio, Jean-Marie Gustave; Bruncrona, Ulla (2005). Afrikanen : Porträtt Av En Far (in Swedish). Stockholm: Elisabeth Grate Bokförlag. pp. Cover. ISBN 9789197532815.
  14. ^ W.D.M. (4 November 1956). "Safari Sees All Africa but the Obvious". Democrat and Chronicle. p. 71.
  15. ^ "Territory Still Mecca For Writers, Cameramen". The Honolulu Advertiser. 6 July 1956. p. 27.
  16. ^ a b "'Fresh' Impressions Of U-M". The Miami News. 28 April 1960. p. 56.
  17. ^ a b "Ten Top Swedish Photographers Exhibit At West Hills College". The Lemoore Advance. 9 March 1972. p. 2.
  18. ^ a b "Swedish Photo Exhibit Comes To West Hills". The Lemoore Advance. 24 February 1972. p. 7.
  19. ^ a b "Photo show at Art Center". The Billings Gazette. 23 July 1972. p. 44.
  20. ^ a b "Display of Swedish Photos Slated at Arts Foundation". The Daily Oklahoman. 18 August 1973. p. 23.
  21. ^ Myrdal, Jan; Kessle, Gun; vom Dorp, Rolf (1979). China Notebook 1975-1978. Chicago: Liberator Press. p. 8. ISBN 9780930720582.
  22. ^ Myrdal, Jan; Kessle, Gun (1965). Chinese journey : Photographs by G. K. Text by J. M. Pantheon Books, a division of Random House. p. 5. OCLC 1164733949.
  23. ^ Murphey, Rhoads; Kessle, Gun; Myrdal, Jan (June 1967). "Chinese Journey". The Geographical Journal. 133 (2): 228. doi:10.2307/1793299. ISSN 0016-7398.
  24. ^ a b Bixler, Alice (17 April 1960). "Camera Angles". The Miami News. p. 67.
  25. ^ Hasselblad Center; Hassner, Rune (1989). Rolf Winquist : Porträttör : En Återblick På En Ledande Svensk Ateljéfotografs Arbeten 1940-1968 (in Swedish). Göteborg: Hasselblad Centre. OCLC 81747003.
  26. ^ Rosenblum, Naomi, ed. (1997). A World History of Photography (3rd ed.). New York, N.Y.: Abbeville Press. p. 548. ISBN 9780789200280. OCLC 912307496.
  27. ^ Sveriges befolkning 1970, (CD-ROM version 1.04) Sveriges Släktforskarförbund 2003
  28. ^ a b c d "Rune Hassner". Photography Database. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  29. ^ Eskildsen, Ute; Knodt, Robert; Liesenfeld, Christel; Museum Folkwang Essen; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1984). Subjektive Fotografie : Images Of the 50's. Essen: Fotografische Sammlung in Museum Folkwang.
  30. ^ Nordholm, Margaret (25 April 1957). "For Courier Readers : Strandberg Reports on African Excursion". The Courier. p. 8.
  31. ^ Belgian Information Center (1958). A selective bibliography of books on subjects related to the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi published in the U.S.A. from 1940 to 1958. New York, N.Y.: Belgian Government Information Center. p. 15. OCLC 6441007.
  32. ^ Freitag, Wolfgang M. (1997). Art Books : A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists. 2nd ed (2nd ed.). New York, N.Y.: Garland Pub. p. 349. ISBN 9780824033262.
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