Swedish photographer Georg Oddner (1923-2007) was born in Stockholm. is a film director, cinematographer, known mainly for his reportage photographs.
Georg Oddner's creative photography spans more than half a century. His black-and-white photographs come from all over the world, and his portraits of jazz actors have earned him great fame.
He portrayed Spain, Peru, Japan, Vietnam and the Soviet people in the fifties and sixties of the last century with sympathy and sincerity.
Georg Oddner became a prominent figure in photography early on, not only in Sweden but also internationally.
Since the beginning of the 90s of the 20th century, he has only created works in color. It was a challenge and a new beginning for him, but his personal perspective did not change, his interest in travel, in people, in changing stages of life.
He also embarked on a different journey, from his studio in Malmö into the world of dried flowers and dried leaves.
It is an inner journey, and he uses the plant world as a metaphor to interpret life and its changes. Artists have long used flowers as a symbol of growth.
In Georg Oddner's work, they become symbols of the nature of human life and the cycle of nature: identification and contrast, desire and decay.
Georg Oddner was born in Stockholm between 1923 and 2007. His early career was as a jazz bugler in Putt Wakeman's sextets.
At the age of 27, he gave up jazz and traveled to the United States with a letter of recommendation from Steen-Didrik Belander to become an assistant to the famous Richard Avidon in New York.
Assistant to fashion photographer Richard Ave in New York.
After returning to Sweden in 1952, he settled in Malmö, mainly in reportage and fashion photography.
Soon, he gained fame and the position he held allowed him to travel the world.
His fame soon soared, and a large number of commissions led him to spread all over the world. One of the magazines in which he regularly works for Vi magazine.
In 1958, he became a founding member of the Stockholm photography group "Tio fotografer" ("Ten Photographers").
Georg Oddner, writer and directed the feature films The Surprise (1972) and The Visiter Dreamer (1978).
In 2003, the documentary "Narvarande," directed by Jan Truell, produced a documentary about Georg Odner.
In his film, Jan Troell attempts to reveal Georg Oddner's unique creative vision to audiences with the help of music from Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck.
There is a sense of identity permeated in his images, his encounter with the new and the unknown, no matter where he is.
He delves deeply into portrait photography, and his jazz photographs reflect his own sense of musicality, his sense of rhythm and harmony as he depicts the legend of the jazz world.
His fashion photos reflect more than just the cuteness of the models and the allure of their clothes, while his dried flower still lifes present another world, great and timeless beauty.
A photographer who knows what they're looking for
George Oldner. Photo: Åke Hedström.
Odner could have stayed in the United States, but he wanted to go home. After returning to his homeland, he opened his own photo studio in Malmö in 1952, where he worked on advertising and reporting shooting.
In 1955, he went to the Soviet Union. His photographs, published in the magazine Veckojournalen, attracted international attention, and Odner received a membership of Magnum Photography. But he refused.
He preferred Malmö to Paris, although he continued to travel the world, visiting Peru, Vietnam, India, Japan, the United States, Chile, Spain and China.
Some say it's pointless and aimless for Odner to wander around the world with a camera, but he knows what he's looking for.
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