Nadav Kander Explained

Nadav Kander
HonFRPS
Field:Photography, Artist, Director
Birth Place:Tel Aviv (Israel)

Nadav Kander HonFRPS (born 1961)[1] is a London-based photographer, artist and director, known for his portraiture and landscapes. Kander has produced a number of books and had his work exhibited widely. He received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society in 2015, and won the Prix Pictet award.

Life and work

Kander was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. His father flew Boeing 707s for El-Al but lost his eye and was unable to continue flying. His parents decided to start again in South Africa and moved to Johannesburg in 1963. Kander began taking pictures when he was 13 on a Pentax camera, which he bought with his Bar Mitzvah money. He states the pictures that he took then and until he was 17, although unaccomplished, have the same sense of quiet and unease that is part of his work today. After being drafted into the South African Air Force, Kander worked in a darkroom printing aerial photographs. It was there he became certain he wanted to be a photographer. He moved to London in 1986, where he still resides with his wife Nicole and their three children.[2]

Kander is best known for his Yangtze - The Long River series, for which he earned the Prix Pictet Prize. Kander never photographed farther than twenty miles from the river itself. In the shadow of epic construction projects we see workers, fishermen, swimmers and a man washing his motorbike in the river. Dense architecture gives way to mountains in the upper reaches towards the river's Tibetan source - a sparsely populated area where the stream is mostly broken ice and just ankle deep. The photographs are dominated by immense architectural structures where humans are shown as small in their environment. Figures are dwarfed by landscapes of half completed bridges and colossal Western-style apartment blocks that are rapidly replacing traditional Chinese low-rise buildings and houseboats.[3]

In 2010 to 2012 Kander photographed a series of nudes - Bodies. 6 Women. 1 Man - in his London studio.[4] [5]

On 18 January 2009, Kander had 52 full colour portraits published in one issue of The New York Times Magazine. These portraits were of the people surrounding US President Barack Obama, from Joe Biden (Vice President) to Eugene Kang (Special Assistant to The President). This is the largest portfolio of work by the same photographer The New York Times Magazine has showcased in one single issue.[6]

In July 2012, Kander exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London with a series of portraits celebrating London's hosting of the 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2014 Kander was among the 18 photographers chosen to be a part of Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age, an exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London, and toured, which explored the ability of architectural photography to reveal wider truths about our society.[7]

His photography for the 2016 TIME Person of the Year cover was widely analyzed and acclaimed.[8] [9] [10]

Kander is a Trustee of The Lowry in Salford, Greater Manchester.

Publications

Publications by Kander

Contributions to publications

Exhibitions

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biography . 2024-05-21 . Nadav Kander . en-US.
  2. Web site: Nadav Kander - Artists . Flowers Gallery . 2014-10-11 . 2015-10-30.
  3. Web site: Nadav Kander - Yangtze, The Long River - Exhibitions . Flowers Gallery . 2015-10-30.
  4. Web site: Nadav Kander - Bodies. 6 Women, 1 Man - Exhibitions . Flowers Gallery . 2013-02-09 . 2015-10-30.
  5. News: The naked and the dead: Nadav Kander's nudes – in pictures | Art and design . The Guardian . 11 January 2013. 2015-10-30 . Kander . Nadav . Jones . Jonathan .
  6. Web site: Nadav Kander . LensCulture . 2015-10-30.
  7. Web site: de-construct.com . newsroom - artform press releases . Barbican . 2015-10-30.
  8. Web site: What Is Time's Trump Cover Really Trying to Tell Us?. Katy. Waldman. 8 December 2016. Slate Magazine.
  9. Web site: Why Time's Trump Cover Is Even More Subversive A Year Later. The Forward. 21 December 2017 .
  10. Web site: TIME's "Person Of The Year" Cover Is More Cutting Than You Think. The FADER.
  11. Web site: Yancey Richardson Gallery > Past Exhibitions > 2001 . Yanceyrichardson.com . 2015-10-30.
  12. Web site: Nadav Kander | Keep your distance | Paris 16e. Palais de Tokyo . Paris-art.com . 2015-10-30.
  13. Web site: World Premiere Exhibition - Obama's People by Nadav Kander at Birmingham Repertory Theatre . Birmingham-rep.co.uk . 2015-10-30.
  14. Web site: Monika Mueller-Kroll . 'Obama's People' Comes To The Kennedys Museum : NPR FM Berlin Blog . NPR . 2015-10-30.
  15. Web site: Laureates at Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne | Prix Pictet | The global award in photography and sustainability . Prix Pictet . 2015-10-30.
  16. Web site: Event Detail - Nadav Kander: Selected Portraits, 1999 – 2011 - Nadav Kander: Selected Portraits, 1999 – 2011 . Thelowry.com . 2015-10-30.
  17. Web site: Infinite Balance: Artists and the Environment | Museum of Photographic Arts . Mopa.org . 2015-10-30.
  18. Web site: bodygestures work . Herzliya Museum . 2015-10-30.
  19. Web site: Nadav Kander . Forum-fotografie.info . 2015-10-30.
  20. Web site: Road to 2012 . Roadto2012.npg.org.uk . 2012-09-09 . 2015-10-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150906163956/http://roadto2012.npg.org.uk/ . 6 September 2015 . dead .
  21. Web site: Landmark: the Fields of Photography . Somerset House . 2013-04-28 . 2015-10-30.
  22. Web site: Nadav Kander: Yangtze–The Long River . Marquette.edu . 2014-12-23 . 2015-10-30.
  23. Web site: Les Rencontres d'Arles Les Rencontres d'Arles 2014 . Rencontres-arles.com . 2015-10-30.
  24. http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2015/10/exhibition-titlegrace-of-intention-photography,-architecture-and-the-monument.php
  25. Web site: Britain in Focus: A Photographic History. National Science and Media Museum.
  26. Web site: Frontpage. 2 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190616134304/https://weserburg.de/. 16 June 2019. dead.
  27. Web site: Looking Good - The Male Gaze From Van Dyck to Lucian Freud. National Galleries of Scotland.
  28. Web site: 2018-09-21. Terence Donovan Award - RPS. Royal Photographic Society.
  29. Web site: Nadav Kander Photo . Lipfart.com . 2015-10-30.
  30. Web site: Nadav Kander | Prix Pictet | The global award in photography and sustainability . Prix Pictet . 2015-10-30.
  31. Web site: The Lucie Awards | 2009 Lucie Awards . Lucies.org . 2015-10-30.
  32. Web site: Nadav Kander . World Press Photo . 2015-10-18 . 2015-10-30.
  33. http://rps.org/news/2015/september/the-rps-2015-awards-announced "The RPS 2015 Awards announced"
  34. Web site: Outstanding Contribution to Photography. World Photography Organisation. en. 2019-04-08.

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