Artist talk // Portrait photography: Torben Eskerod in conversation with Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz
Artist talk // 19:30 - 20:30
Portrait photography: Torben Eskerod in conversation with Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz (photo curator).
Torben Eskerod is widely known for his work with one of the oldest genres in the history of photography: the portrait. Today, we can all take a portrait of ourselves and each other with a quick click on our phone. But what does the portrait really tell us about human beings? Eskerod has photographed everything from the Queen of Denmark to death masks, and for him the portrait is a way into subjects such as memory and spirituality. The talk originates from The royal library's permanent photo exhibition The Camera and Us, and especially the room 'The portrait for the many - To stand still'.
The conversation will be in Danish.
Permanent Exhibition // Kameraet og os (The Camera and Us)
In the fall of 2021 the first permanent exhibition about the history of photography opened in Denmark.
Photography has through the past 200 years become our most important source of communication and memory and simultaneously it has evolved into an art form of it's own. In the exhibition Kameraet og os (The Camera and Us) the story about the camera is dispersed through various forms of photography that all have helped shape our contemporary visual culture today. From the first precious portraits created from silver gilded metal plate to the ubiquitous image flow of the digital age.
Opening hours
Monday - Friday: 10:00 - 20:00
Saturday: 10:00 - 18:00
Sunday closed
