KELD HELMER-PETERSEN

Publications and articles by Keld Helmer-Petersen

122 Farvefotografier/122 Colour Photographs, Det Schønbergske Forlag, Copenhagen 1948.

“Krisen i dansk fotografi”, Dansk Kunsthaandvark (Copenhagen), vol.23, 1950, pp.17-18.

“Om fotografisk eksperimenteren”, Fra A til Z (Copenhagen) vol.2, no.3, 1952.

Colour before the Camera, The Fountain Press, London, 1952.

“Den fotografiske udtryksform”, Vindrosen (Copenhagen) March 1954, pp.158-162. Reprinted in 1990.

“Farvefotografi”, Kunst (Copenhagen) vol.2, no.3, 1954, pp.75-76

“Skumringen er fotografens tid”, Dansk Kunsthaandvark (Copenhagen) vol.28, 1955, pp.4-5.

“Om fotografering” (with an English translation), Mobilia (Snekkersten) vol.21, no.10, 1955, pp.32-35.

“A New Personality”: Jørn Utzon,” Zodiac (Milan) no.5, 1959, pp.70-72 (text), pp.74-75, 78-79, 82, 84-85, 91 (photos).

Fragments of a City. Chicago Photographs, Hans Reitzels Publishers, Copenhagen 1960.

“Den fotografiske udtryksform”, (English translation: The form of photographic expression), KATALOG (Odense) vol.3, no.1, September 1990, pp.32-33. First published in 1954.

“Den evige amatør, skitse til omridset af en fotografisk løbebane, ”Rapport om fænomenet fotografi, The Royal Dansih Academy of FineArts, Copenhagen 1990.

Frameworks, Photographs 1950-90, Hans Reitzels Publishers, Copenhagen 1993.

Danish Beauty, Edition Bløndal, Copenhagen 2004.

Keld Helmer-Petersen, Photographs 1941-1995, Christian Ejlers Publishers, Copenhagen 2007.

Black Noise, Rocket Gallery, London 2010.

Back to Black, Rocket Gallery, London 2011.

122 Colour Photographs (Books on Books 14), Errata Editions, New York 2012.

Black Light, Rocket Gallery, London 2014.

Selected books and articles about Keld Helmer-Petersen and published photographs

Wilson Hicks: “Camera abstractions”, LIFE (New York), Nov. 28, 1949.

Robert d’Hooghe: Von der Phantasie des Auges in Leica-Fotografie (Frankfurt a.M.), May/June 1954, pp.94-99.

R.Broby-Johansen: København (Copenhagen) 1965 (color photos by K.H-P.).

Henrik Bramsen: Strukturer. “Poul Kjærholm og Keld Helmer-Petersen udstiller hos Ole Palsby”, Dansk Kunsthaandvark (Copenhagen), vol.38, no.3, 1965-66, pp.92-97.

Pierre Lübecker: “Clear Form. Danish Photographers. 1”, Danish Foreign Office Journal (Copenhagen), no.57, 1966, pp.20-21.

Tage Poulsen: “Keld Helmer-Petersen interview”, Foto Smalfilm (Copenhagen), June 1977, pp.22-27.

Petr Tausk: Photography in the 20th Century, London 1980, pp.273, 275, fig.113.

Finn Thrane: “Keld Helmer-Petersen. Tilbageblik på dannelsesårene”. (With an English summary: Retrospective look at the formative years) KATALOG (Odense), vol.3, no.1, September 1990, pp.25-28, 38.

Tage Poulsen: “Keld Helmer-Petersen” Foto, Film & Video (Copenhagen), no.10, October 1990, pp.32-37.

Finn Thrane: “Postmodernisme: Abans i després”. (with an English translation: Postmodernism: Before and After in the exhibition catalogue) 13 critics, 26 fotografs, Primavera Fotografica, Barcelona 1992, pp.123-129, 155-156.

Kim Dirckinck-Holmfeld: “Kalligrafisk Fotografi” Arkitekten 22, 1997, pp.7-11, Copenhagen 1997.

Martin Parr and Gerry Badger: The Photobook: A History, vol.1, pp.202-203. London 2004. 

Kirsten Simonsen: “Discoveries and Rediscoveries” KATALOG, no.3, pp.48-49, Odense 2005.

Lars Schwander: “Keld Helmer-Petersen (Danmark), Retrospektivt” En Hvidbog, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen 2006, pp.206-207.

Helge Krarup and Carl Nørrested: “Eksperimentalfilm i Danmark”, Copenhagen, 1986. s. 24, 28, 104, 157.

“Industriens Billeder”, Copenhagen 2007. pp. 165f-237-242

Eyes wide open – 100 Years of Leica Photography, Kehrer, 2014, pp. 200-202, 371-373.

Ulrich Rüter: “The Shape of Colour”, Leica Fotografie International, 7/2015, p. 84-87.

Inger Ellekilde Bonde: ”Hjemsøgt af betydningsfulde former” (Haunted by Significant Forms), Ph.d- thesis, University of Copenhagen 2019. (Download thesis in Danish here: https://curis.ku.dk/ws/files/231550718/Ph.d._afhandling_2019_Bonde.pdf)

Inger Ellekilde Bonde: “Keld Helmer-Petersens fotografiske verden” (The Photographic World of Keld Helmer-Petersen), U-Press/Babette, Sorø 2021