Ewa-Mari Johansson's Strong, Liberated and Independent Women.
In the fashion photographer Ewa-Mari Johansson's exhibition Performance Freedom at Falsterbo Photo Art Museum, we meet strong, liberated and independent women, in photographs from the 1980s and onwards that were made for major fashion magazines and exhibitions. Ewa-Mari Johansson has worked as a photographer for 35 years for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, DONNA, AMICA and Vogue Sposa and started out as an international top model with covers for Vogue Italia.
The works also take us to the African savannah, the performance scene in New York in the 1970s and 1980s, and examines the feminism that Madonna brought into popular culture. The photographs cover her entire career as a photographer, from the 1980s to the 2000s and show fashion from designers who captured the spirit of the times such as Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Norma Kamali, Prada, and the Italian haute couture house Lancetti, known for being inspired by modernist artists. Johansson works with great curiosity about art, architecture, opera and ballet and has often let her images reflect different cultures.
The exhibition is shown alongside the photo museum’s major exhibition Dressed for Success - 100 Years of Fashion Photographythat runs until January 9, 2022. (Image: Harpers Bazaar Haute Couture Day Hallway. Photo & Copyright ©Ewa-Mari Johansson.)
Falsterbo Photo Art Museum
Performance Freedom – Ewa-Mari Johansson
October 2, 2021 – January 9, 2022
Lecture with Ewa-Mari Johansson, Wednesday 6 October at 6.30pm.