Erling Mandelmann is a Danish photographer. He began his career as a freelance photojournalist

Photojournalism

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 in the mid-1960s.

Biography

Erling Mandelmann worked for 40 years as a freelance photojournalist and portrait photographer for a number of Swiss and European publications, as well as for various international organizations. (World Health Organization

World Health Organization

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, International Labour Organization

International Labour Organization

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, the United Nations, Amnesty International

Amnesty International

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). Erling Mandelmann has taken more than 500 portraits of personalities, including amongst others Noel Coward

Noël Coward

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, 14th Dalai Lama

14th Dalai Lama

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, Nina Hagen

Nina Hagen

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, Johnny Hallyday

Johnny Hallyday

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, Prince Hans-Adam of Lichtenstein

Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein

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.

His photo-archives have been deposited at the Historical Museum of Lausanne.

Exhibitions

• 1969 : P Galerie-Club Migros, Lausanne (CH)
• 1971 : P Photo-reportages, The Danish Museum of Industrial Art, Copenhagen (DK)
• 1974 : C One World for All, Photokina, Köln (D)
• 1975 : C RAPHO, Galerie Clinch, Paris (F)
• 1977 : C The Child of this World, World Exhibition of Photography (D)
• 1978 : P Lausanne 1900, Musée des arts décoratifs, Lausanne (CH)
• 1983 : C 100 ans FSJ, Fédération Suisse des Journalistes, Fribourg (CH)
• 1986 : C Charlottenborg Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (DK)
• 1986 : C l'Histoire du Portrait, Le Musée de l'Elysée au Comptoire Suisse, Lausanne (CH)
• 1987 : P Portraits – projection de dias sur une musique de Philip Glass ("Nuit de la photo"), Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne (CH)
• 1987 : C Fête des vignerons, Musée de l'appareil photo, Vevey (CH)
• 1992 : C Marges, Dpt. de la prévoyance sociale, Vaud (CH)
• 1995 : P Impressionen 95, expo pour les 125 ans de la Clinique Psychiatrique Universitaire, Zurich (ZH)
• 1995 : P Portraits nordique, Nordisches Institut der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität, Greifswald (D)
• 1996 : P Foto-Porträts, Caspar-David-Friedrich Institut, Greifswald (D)
• 1996 : P Mennesker paa min vej ("Rencontres" – 30 ans de portraits), Rundetaarn, Copenhagen (DK )
• 1997 : P Rencontres Portraits de 30 ans de photo-journalisme, Centre vivant d'Art contemporain, Grignan / Drôme , France
• 1997 : P Persönlichkeiten, Nikon Image House, Zürich (CH)
• 1997 : P Portraits, Salon de Sud-Est (l'invité de la 70e édition de l'exposition), Palais des Expositions, Lyon (F)
• 1998 : P Carrières de femmes & passion d'ingenieures, Pont de la Machine, Geneva; EPFL, + Forum Hôtel de Ville, Lausanne, CH
• 1999 : P Rencontres, Espace Culturel Georges Sand, St. Quentin Fallavier (F)
• 1999 : C Le pays de la Fête 1999, "Fête des Vignerons 1977", Musée de Pully (CH)
• 2000 : P Portraits fin de siècle, Musée historique, Lausanne (CH)
• 2001 : P Musée de l'Histoire Nationale, Modern collection, Château de Frederiksborg (DK)
• 2001 : P Parcours de femmes, l'Université de Neuchâtel (CH)
• 2001 : C Hall of mirrors, portraits from the museums collection, Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense (DK)
• 2002 : C Inside the sixties: g.p. 1.2.3.È Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
• 2002 : C London in the sixties, Organisation Mondiale de la Propriété Intellectuelle, Genève
• 2003 : C Vivre entre deux mondes, Musée historique de Lausanne, 18 portraits d'immigrés
• 2007 : C Objectif photoreportage, Musée Historique de Lausanne
• 2009 : C Au fil du temps, – le jeu de l'âge Fondation Claude Verdan (Musée de la Main), Lausanne
• 2009 : P Ceux de Vézelay – portrait d'un Bourg, expo noir/blanc, Vézeley (FR)
• 2010 : P le photographe, le musicien et l'architecte, Villa "Le Lac" Le Corbusier/ Corseaux-Vevey

P = solo exhibitions; C = collective exhibitions

External links

• Personal website
• Portraits of celebrities
• Swiss foundation for photography
• Historical museum of Lausanne (Switzerland)
• Erling Mandelmann on the W.H.O. Website
• Venterol.net – Erling Mandelmann Photographe
• Villa «le Lac» Le Corbusier
  Le Corbusier
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