The internationally acclaimed Danish photographer Ulla Diedrichsen was a pioneer in Danish art photography. Her polaroid-photographs from the 1980s were the first to be included in The International Polaroid Collection in Boston alongside artists like David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Helmut Newton, Ansel Adams and others. She also was the first Danish female artist to exhibit solo at ARoS Art Museum in Aarhus. The exhibition “Moment Movement Monument” was a total installation of her photographic work from 1975–2005. Ulla Diedrichsen’s work is of a conceptual nature, often focusing on the details of the everyday and our more-or-less staged lives.

In the photographs presented here, shoes and bananas are juxtaposed in a humoristic and colourful composition. The unique large format polaroid-pictures were shot with a rare large-format polaroid-camera, which the artist was invited to use by the Polaroid Corporation after returning to Denmark from a stay at the American pop artist Andy Warhol’s Factory in New York in the mid 1980s. Other polaroid-pictures from this series are today in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Brandts Museum, Odense and Fotomuseum WestLicht, Wien.

Reference: Ulla Diedrichsen: En Kunstners baggård, 2010. p. 138–139.

Exhibited at the solo exhibition “Dobbeltmønstret”, at Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, 1987.