Lars Schwander is a Danish

Denmark

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 photographer and gallerist. As a photographer he is most known for his portraits of international artists. In 1996 he founded Fotografisk Center

Fotografisk Center

Fotografisk Center is an exhibition space in Copenhagen, Denmark, dedicated to international and Danish photographic art. Since 1 February 2011 it has been based in the Tap E building in the Carlsberg area on the border between Vesterbro and Valby.-History:...

 in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, an exhibition space for art photography.

Biography

Lars Schwander was born in 1957. In the 1980s he was the co-editor of the magazine Sidegaden before founding his own magazine Copyright.

Photography

Schwander has portrayed many international artists in his photography, including Björk

Björk

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, Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

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, Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz

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, Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway

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, Roger Ballen

Roger Ballen

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, Günther Förg

Günther Förg

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, Martin Kippenberger

Martin Kippenberger

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, Duane Michals

Duane Michals

Duane Michals is an American photographer. Michals' work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy.-Education and career:...

, Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton

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, Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono

is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...

, Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman

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 and Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :...

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His artistic work is represented in international collections such as those of Bibliothèque Nationale

Bibliothèque nationale de France

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 in Paris, the Musée de la photographie in Belgium, the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen, the Brandts Museum of Photographic Art

Brandts Museum of Photographic Art

The Danish Museum of Photographic Art is located in Odense, Denmark. It is the only national Danish art museum dedicated specifically to photographic art...

, Louis Vuitton Foundation

Louis Vuitton

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 in Paris, the Lenono Photo Archive in New York and the extensive German Olbricht Collection in Essen.

Other photography-related activities

In 1996 Schwander established the Fotografisk Center

Fotografisk Center

Fotografisk Center is an exhibition space in Copenhagen, Denmark, dedicated to international and Danish photographic art. Since 1 February 2011 it has been based in the Tap E building in the Carlsberg area on the border between Vesterbro and Valby.-History:...

 at Gammel Strand

Gammel Strand

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 in Copenhagen and in 2008 he opened a second photography gallery, annexone.org in Amaliegade

Amaliegade

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. He has also written a number of books and calalogues on photography and photographers, uncluding a biography of Viggo Rivad

Viggo Rivad

Viggo Rivad is a Danish photographer who started as an autodidact in 1946 and went on to win numerous competitions in the 1950s and 1960s. Around 1960, he adopted his so-called essay approach resulting in series of related photographs such as Et farvel and Laurits...

, as well as a reviewer of photography books and exhibitions for national daily Politiken

Politiken

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Schwander has also curated exhibitions for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located directly on the shore of the Øresund Sound in Humlebæk, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the most visited art museum in Denmark with an extensive permanent collection of modern and contemporary art, dating from World War II and up...

. and sits on boards and committees of the Danish art world as well as on the jury in the Fogtdal Photographers Award

Fogtdal Photographers Award

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