Mikael Jansson
Mikael Jansson’s passion for photography began as a teenager in Stockholm in the late 1970s. While photographing the leading musicians who came through the city, Jansson assisted Carl Johann Ronn and was introduced to the histories and possibilities of the medium. In the mid 1980s, Jansson arrived in New York with the determined purpose to assist in Richard Avedon’s studio where he worked for two years, including darkroom printing Avedon’s influential exhibition In the American West (1985). The lineage of Avedon in Jansson’s approach to photography is still present with his curiosity and celebration of the characters and subjects he has photographed over the past four decades, and a unique ability to capture the moment. Since the 1990s, Mikael Jansson has created era-defining images, working with innovative publications and fashion houses. In Dutch magazine in 1998, Jansson garnered international attention when he published a eighty-two page portfolio of nude portraits with respective fashion “credits” that made a nod to Andy Warhol. He is renowned for his photographic signature both in the studio and on location.
His enduring images are found in publications including Vogue, Interview, Vogue Paris, Vogue Italia, British Vogue, Arena Homme +, L’Uomo Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Visionnaire, W Magazine, AnOther Magazine, and Love. Jansson’s impressive list of fashion, luxury, and beauty clients include Givenchy, Louis Vuitton, Hugo Boss, Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Chloé, Ermenegildo Zegna, Dsquared2, H&M, Coach, Tod’s, Salvatore Ferragamo, Jimmy Choo, Bulgari, Tiffany & Co, Rolex, Longchamp, Estée Lauder, Shiseido, Lancôme, Guerlain, Revlon, Giorgio Armani Cosmetics, and fragrances by Salvatore Ferragamo, Givenchy, Christian Dior, Jil Sander, Burberry, Donna Karan, and Calvin Klein.
Books
| 2018 | Witnesses |
| 2016 | PA&Co - Ännu en kokbok, published by Stockholm New publishing |
| 2013 | Stockholm New (Stockholm New Publishing) |
| 2012 | Contemporary Swedish Photography, published by Art And Theory publishing |
| 2011 | Le Boucher, published by Gun Gallery |
| 2011 | Iggy Pop, published by Gun Gallery |
| 2007 | Speed Of Life, published by Steidl |
| 2006 | PA&Co - Mer än en kokbok, published by Stockholm New publishing |
| 1999 | Mikael Jansson, published by Beaufort Press
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Exhibitions
| 2018 | Witnesses | Kulturhuset | Stockholm |
| 2013 | Boychild | Unseen | Amsterdam |
| 2013 | Dum Dum Boys | The Ravestijn Gallery | Amsterdam |
| 2013 | Stockholm New – national romanticism from double turn of the centuries:
contemporary fashion photography meet classic masterpiece painting | Thielska | Stockholm |
| 2012 | Coming Home for Christmas | Gun Gallery | Stockholm |
| | Scandinavian Art Fair, 48 hour online art fair | Scandinavian Art Fair | Online |
| 2011 | Paris Photo | Grand Palais | Paris |
| | Dum Dum Boys | Gun Gallery | Stockholm |
| | Le Boucher | Hardorff's Hus | Copenhagen |
| 2010 | Fashion! – modefotografi genom tiderna | Fotografiska | Stockholm |
| 2009 | Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now | Institute of Contemporary Art | Boston |
| | Le Boucher | Sturehof | Stockholm |
| 2008 | Toys R Us | Brändström och Stene Stockholm | Stockholm |
| 2007 | Speed Of Life | Kulturhuset | Stockholm |
| 2004 | Art Fair | Galleri Christian Larsen, Konstmässan | Stockholm |
| | Fashioning Fiction in Photography | The Museum of Modern Art | New York |
| 2003 | Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography | Fashion Museum | Kobe |
| 2002 | Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography | Centre Nationale de la Photographie | Paris |
| | | Institute of Contemporary Art | Boston |
| 1999 | Contemporary Swedish Cultural Manifestation | Zokei University | Tokyo |
| | Creative Time in the Anchorage: Exposing Meaning in Fashion Through Presentation | Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage | New York |
| 1998 | Underexposed, (subway exhibition) | Stockholm subway | Stockholm |
| | Fashion Photography- 100 Of The World’s Most Renowned Photographers Exhibition of Contemporary | | Nagoya |
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| | Tokyo |
| | YSL – 40 Years of Creation | Spiral Garden | Tokyo |
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| | New York |
| 1995 | The Generations of Swedish Photography | The New Gallery | Miami |
| | | Parson’s School of Design | New York |
| | | The Forum Gallery | Jamestown |
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The Swedish Embassy |
Washington DC |
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Nordic Heritage Museum |
Seattle |
| 1994 |
Mode et Portraits | Espace Image - Scene Nationale | Bayonne |
| | | Musee National des Beaux Arts | Santiago |
| | | Musee National des Arts Visuels | Montevideo |
| | | Musee Revolutionaire | Bejing |
| | A Positive View, Vogue Exhibiton | Saatchi Gallery | London |
| 1993 | Catwalk | Museum of Modern Art | Stockholm |
| 1992 | International Festival of Fashion Photography | | Monaco |