ARNDT, Tom

About US-American photographer Tom ARNDT (b.1944, in Minneapolis)

Tom (Thomas Frederick) ARNDT received a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (1968) and did graduate study at the University of Minnesota (1969-1971). His photography belongs to the grand, classic tradition of American documentary photography. The work includes sensitive, empathetic portrayals of everyday citizens, in their coffee shops and soda fountains, their streets, their shop windows, their parks, at popular state fairs. Pessimism and pity are out of place. As his friend and well known writer Garrison Keillor points out, Tom ARNDT photographs the DNA of our culture. A consistently resourceful street photographer, he captures fleeting gestures and momentary juxtapositions between people and their surroundings, finding in them a sense of emotional or psychological depth.

Photo books by and on the work of Tom ARNDT

  • 'Men in America' (1995)
    'Home: Tom Arndt's Minnesota' (2009)
    'American Reflections' (2022)

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ARNDT, Tom - American Reflections
ARNDT, Tom - American Reflections
In the monograph volume 'American Reflections' the b/w images by US photographer Tom ARNDT are telling stories from the middle class, the suburbs or the hectic streets of the metropolises of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and his hometown of Minneapolis.
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Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • 2006: 'Minnesota', Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
    2012: 'NYC July 4, 1981', Haggerty Museum of Aer, Milwaukee, USA
    2014: 'HOME. Tom Arndt's Minnesota', Le Douche, Paris
    2017: 'Where I live', Howard Greenberg Gallery
    2022/23: 'American Reflections, Le Douche, Paris
Group exhibitions
  • 2002:' Life of the City', Museum of Modern Art, New York (together with works by Berenice ABBOTT, Jules ALLEN,Merry ALPERN, Diane ARBUS, Richard AVEDON, Anthony BARBOZA, Richard BENSON, Dawoud BEY, Katharina BOSSE, Rudy BURCKHARDT, Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, Roy COLMER, Philip-Lorca DiCORCIA, Larry FINK, Lee FRIEDLANDER, Jan GROOVER, Ernst HAAS, William KLEIN, Helen LEVITT, Nickolas MURAY, Tod PAPAGEORGE, Irving PENN, Cindy SHERMAN, Edward STEICHEN, Joel STERNFELD, Alfred STIEGLITZ, Thomas STRUTH, Madoka TAKAGI, James VAN DER ZEE, WEEGEE, Garry WINOGRAND)
    2006: 'From Darkroom to Digital: Photographic Variations', Art Institute of Chicago (together with works by Ansel ADAMS, Chuck CLOSE, Frank Eugene (SMITH), Edward STEICHEN as well as by Alfred STIEGLITZ)
    2015: 'New York', Le Douche, Paris (together with works by Berenice ABBOTT, Arlene GOTTFRIED, Ernst HAAS, Helen LEVITT, Vivian MAIER, Ray K. METZKER, Louis STETTNER as well as by Sabine WEISS)
    2017: 'Resistance, Protest, Resilience', The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (together with works by Stan DOUGLAS, Leslie HEWITT, Danny LYON, Gordon PARKS, Gilles PERESS, Allan SEKULA as well as by Shômei TOMATSU
    2018: 'Black Chicago', Les Douches, Paris (together with works by Yasuhiro ISHIMOTO, Vivian MAIER, Ray K. METZKER, Wayne F. MILLER, Marvin E. NEWMAN, Carlos Javier ORTIZ
    2019: 'Les Coups der Coeur', Les Douches (together with works by Berenice Abbott, Tom Arndt, Jean-Christophe Béchet, John Baldessari, Harry Callahan, Sébastien Camboulive, Stéphane Couturier, Marion Dubier Clark, Aymeric Fouquez, Arlene GOTTFRIED, Hervé GUIBERT, Pascal Kern, Vivian Maier, Ray K. METZKER, Wayne F. MILLER, Steven RIFKIN, Jacqueline SALMON, Homer SYKES, Sabine WEISS as well as by Bruce WRIGHTON
    2021: 'L'éloge de la main', Les Douches (together with works by
    Berenice ABBOTT, John BALDESSARI, Pierre BOUCHER, Roger CATHERINEAU, Jean-Philippe CHARBONNIER, Louis FAURER, Ernst HAAS, Sid KAPLAN, François KOLLAR, Germaine KRULL, Ray K. METZKER, Roger SCHALL, Raoul UBAC, Sabine WEISS, Bruce WRIGHTON
    2022: 'Train Zug Treno Tren. Crossing Lines', Photo Elysee Lausanne (together with works by Lucien AIGNER,  Olivia BEE, René BURRI, Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, Cyrus CORNUT, Martine FRANCK, Philipp GIEGEL, Louis LUMIÈRE, Auguste LUMIÈRE, Ella MAILLART, Jean MOHR, Bernard PLOSSU, Andrea Star REESE, Sabine WEISS

His photographs have also been exhibited at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and other venues.

Collections

The work by Tom ARNDT is held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

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