Artist

Sofus Madsen

Sofus Madsen is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Sofus Madsen spent his days wandering Oslo’s back alleys with a twin-lens Rolleiflex strapped to his chest, snapping square photos like a postman sorting mail. He’d frame a soot-stained wall or a tilted clothesline with the same steady hands he used to develop prints in his bathtub sink at night. Why he never signed his work is anyone’s guess; maybe he liked the idea of pictures ghosting through the world unattributed.

Hunt down his 1962 Untitled (Photograph), it’s a quiet corner of the city caught between dusk and a single streetlamp, the kind of image that makes you pause mid-step.

Works by Sofus Madsen

Collections represented

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