36 x 29 cm / Passepartout 40 x 50 cm
4/25 July 1977 / signiert

Photographs by Jim Bengston

Born Evanston, Illinois, 1942.
Grew up in Chicago area. Studied literature at Lake Forest College, graduating with honors,

1964.
Shortly after entering graduate school at Princeton University decided against academic career & joined army,1965.

Became interested in photography while stationed in Germany.
Assistant to base photographer, 1967-1968.

Photo editor at Associated Press, New York, 1969 & 1970.

Moved to Oslo, Norway, with family and worked as copywriter, translator and photographer at advertising agency Young&Rubicam, 1971-1975.

Freelance photographer, Oslo, since 1975.

Books:
"Afterwords", N.Y., 1978 "Slow Motion", European Photography, Germany, 1986 "Empty Landscape", Lillehammer Art Museum, Labyrinth Press, Oslo, 1996

Art Institute of Chicago
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki

Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo

Lillehammmer Art Museum
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Museum of Photographic Art, Odense,Denmark
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo

National Museum of American Art, (the Smithsonian), Washington
Norsk museum for fotografi – Preus fotomuseum, Horten
Polaroid Collection, Cambridge
San Francisco MoMA
The Collection of the City of Oslo
The Collection of the Norwegian Cultural Council
Trondheim Kunstforening
Walker Art Center