Nanna Bisp-Büchert | Henrik Brahe |Krass Clement | Tina Enghoff | Torben Eskerod | Charlotte C. Haslund-Christensen | Keld Helmer-Petersen |Nicolai Howalt | Per Bak Jensen | Adam Jeppesen | Fie Johansen | Camilla Holmgren | Kirsten Klein | Tove Kurtzweil | Finn Larsen | Steen Larsen |Mads Ljungdahl | Søren Lose | Hans E. Madsen | Hans Manner-Jakobsen |Inger Lise Rasmussen | Henrik Saxgren| Lars Schwander | Erik Steffensen |Trine Søndergaard | Susanne Wellm |and Ebbe Stub Wittrup

This exhibition provides a glimpse of the rich diversity of subjects, styles, and techniques explored by photographers in Denmark today. Comprising 92 images by 27 artists demonstrating the depth and vitality of Denmark’s thriving contemporary photography scene, it includes influential pioneers in the relatively short history of Danish photography as well as representatives of the new generation. Rather than seeking to define a “Danish School” of photography, this exhibition challenges the concept of a Danish or Nordic style by examining the fertile international exchange of ideas and influences that characterizes a discipline in the midst of a technical revolution.

FOTO: New Photography from Denmark includes works in various genres-landscape, portrait, street and studio photography-by artists ranging in age from 27 to 85, many of whom have not exhibited previously in this country. While Kirsten Klein explores the conventions of landscape photography, Camilla Holmgren’s female nudes in confined spaces challenge notions of intimacy, exoticism, and desire. Some of the other artists interrogate the “rules” of documentary photography or revisit old negatives with new techniques.

Many of the artists in the exhibition are well-traveled and work under a variety of influences not limited by national borders. The oldest artist in the exhibition, Keld Helmer-Petersen, studied photography in Chicago in the 1940s and was one of the first to introduce Denmark to the qualities of abstract art and design that he had found in photography on this side of the Atlantic. He is also known as a pioneer in the use of color photography.

FOTO: New Photography from Denmark is organized by the Faulconer Gallery at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa and is curated by Daniel Strong and designed byMilton Severe. The first major survey of contemporary Danish photography in the United States, the exhibition was first presented in 2005 at the Faulconer Gallery asScandinavian Photography 2: Denmark.