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Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)

(Sweden, Born 1949)
Estimate
15 000 - 20 000 SEK
1 330 - 1 780 EUR
1 380 - 1 840 USD
Hammer price
12 000 SEK
Covered by droit de suite

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Finland: Kuvasto

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Karin Aringer
Stockholm
Karin Aringer
Specialist Photographs and Contemporary Art
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Dawid (Björn Dawidsson)
(Sweden, Born 1949)

'P 1371', 1984

Signerad. Utförd 1985. Vintage. Silvergelatinfotografi bildyta 22,7 x 19,4 cm. Inklusive ram utförd av konstnären 45,5 x 37,5 cm.

Literature

Dawid and Steven Henry Madoff, "Dawid - This is a photograph", 2015, illustrated on fullpage p. 134.

Artist

Dawid is one of Sweden’s most notorious photographers, and was a pioneer in conceptual photography. He had his breakthrough in 1983 with the exhibition “Rost” at the Fotografiska Museum. Dawid pushes the boundaries to what is considered photography, At first glance, his images possess strong aesthetic values, but upon closer inspection, the depicted objects, which appear in all their everyday ordinariness, seem to open up anew. The images undergo a kind of metamorphosis and acquire meanings beyond the merely denoted.

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