Lars Schwander was born in 1957. In the 1980s he was the co-editor of the magazine
Sidegaden before founding his own magazine
Copyright. He was part of the editorial group of
Sidegaden magazine from 1982 to 1984, then a publisher and editor at Lundtofte Publishing in Denmark from 1987 to 1993. From 1989 and in the 1990s, he held a number of roles in the department of photographs at
The Royal Library. Schwander was publisher and editor-in-chief of
Copyright Art Magazine from 1990 to 1992. He founded the
Fotografisk Center in 1996, and was director until 2011. He was curator for photography at the
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art from 1999 to 2004, and a board member of
The Finnish Cultural Institute in Copenhagen in 2001. He founded the Institute of Photography in 2011. In 1996 Schwander established the
Fotografisk Center at
Gammel Strand in Copenhagen and in 2008 he opened a second photography gallery, annexone.org in
Amaliegade. Schwander has portrayed many international artists in his photography, including
Björk,
Leonard Cohen,
Annie Leibovitz,
Peter Greenaway,
Roger Ballen,
Günther Förg,
Martin Kippenberger,
Duane Michals,
Helmut Newton,
Yoko Ono,
Cindy Sherman and
Lawrence Weiner. His artistic work is represented in international collections such as those of
Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Musée de la photographie in Belgium, the
Royal Danish Library inCopenhagen, the
Brandts Museum of Photographic Art,
Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, the Lenono Photo Archive in New York and the extensive German Olbricht Collection in Essen. == Bibliography ==