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Contemporary Swedish Photography

By Ed Estelle Af Malborg

Contemporary Swedish Photography Photography

Contemporary Swedish Photography

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Contemporary Swedish Photography Art and Theory presents Contemporary Swedish Photography, a unique and sumptuous book providing a much-needed overw over the field from the 1970s until today. With its generous format, the book introduces the reader to fifty-two acclaimed photographers, presenting their different styles and forms of expression in image and text. In her introductory text Charlotte Cotton delivers her w of what defines Swedish photography from an international perspective, while an extensive essay by Niclas Östlind provides valuable insight into the development of Swedish photography since the seventies, outlining the currents and events that have formed the countrys contemporary photographic landscape. In its time span and its underpinning ideas this book can be said to spring from the formative work of Christer Strömholm. In documentary as well as staged photography today one can make out clear influences from Christer Strömholms own pictures, his thoughts on photography and ion, and his uncompromising attitude towards the mediumbesides a more concrete influence on a large number of photographers through his role as teacher and head of the legendary Fotoskolan, the school of photography that he co-founded in Stockholm. In the past decades photography has established itself as an art form on equal footing with painting and spture. At the same time the boundaries between art photography and for example fashion or documentary photography have become increasingly vague, a development that is reflected in this book. Within Swedish photography today there is a relatively accepting climate where different photographic genres are presented side-by-side on more or less equal terms. We see a renaissance of classical and documentary photographyalbeit with a clearer awareness of the photographers own positionparallel to a continuing interest in the staged.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
2012-06-01
Publication Date:
2012-06-01
Publisher:
Art and Theory Stockholm AB
Languages:
Published: English, Published: Swedish, Original: English
ISBN10:
9197998575
Weight:
1247 g
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