Photobooks are, however, not a new phenomenon. Books and the photographic image have a joint history that stretches from the establishment of photography in the 1840s to today, but photo books only started receiving serious attention in the early 2000s, in Sweden and internationally. The growing attention to photobooks has led to an expanded view of the history of photography, as well as creating new ways of spreading photography and reaching an audience. A culture has established itself around photobooks, including photographers, publishers, collectors, festivals, trade fairs and digital media. Experiences and ideas are transmitted within these networks and forums; books are reviewed, circulated, bought, exchanged and sold. This development means that the book is no longer just a supplement to exhibitions at galleries, art institutions and museums but increasingly functions as a place of display in its own right, with unique possibilities. As objects, books have a completely different permanence than exhibitions, which are time- and space-specific. By contrast, books remain and can be distributed on the global photography scene.
Although there have been many books and exhibitions about the history of the photobook – seen from national as well as international perspectives – Published is the first exhibition and book that highlights the photobook in Sweden. The project spans the first examples with glued-in photographs from the 1860s, via the different movements that have had an impact on the photobook in the twentieth century, up to today’s extensive and rich publications. Two hundred books have been selected for the exhibition, based on three themes: Society, The Self, and The Image. The terms reflect overarching issues that have a strong presence in photography, gathering together books that deal with the specific topics and perspectives. The category Society deals with work, accommodation, leisure time, alienation and inclusion, and public space. The portrayal of different identities, the subjective gaze, personal experiences and life stories form the core of The Self. In The Image the motif is more central than the narrative and there’s a visible fascination with the phenomenology of things, as well as the aesthetics of photography and the book. Although the categories capture and show different aspects, they do, of course, overlap and intersect with each other in important ways. This is the case, for example, when it comes to the link between the personal and the political, as well as the fact that a preoccupation with aesthetics does not exclude the possibility of the images having a deeper meaning and effect.
Photobooks are visual and tactile objects. Instead of showing the books in display cases, Published is an open exhibition where the viewer can freely page through, look into and read the exhibited books. The handful of books that are too fragile or valuable to be made accessible in this way are available in the Hasselblad Foundation’s library, where visitors are welcome. The literary side of photobooks is highlighted through audio recordings of selected texts that the viewer can listen to in the exhibition.
The purpose of Published is to present the history of the photobook in Sweden and the many forms that published photography can take, but it’s also a survey on how the photographic image depicts and forms man and society. The exhibition is part of the on-going research project Photography in Print & Circulation, which is a collaboration between the Hasselblad Foundation and Valand Academy. The project will culminate in a comprehensive publication about the photobook in Sweden, published in the autumn of 2018.
Curator: Niclas Östlind, Valand Academy, in collaboration with Elsa Modin and Louise Wolthers, Hasselblad Foundation.
Books in the exhibition
The Image
Jerker Andersson
Phone Diary
2015
Marie Andersson
Marie Andersson
2010
Jäger Arén
1416 Anholt
2004
Simon Berg
Apan är rädd
2009
Helena Blomqvist
Florentine
2016
Martin Bogren
Ocean
2008
Stina Brockman
The Sensation of Falling
2016
Emanuel Cederqvist
Det som blir kvar
2014
Hans Cogne
Requiem: fotografier 1984-88
1992
Dawid
Rost
1983
Dawid
Dagram
1989
Lennart Durehed
Vicinity & Ceilings
2015
Cecilia Edefalk
Photography 227 Months
2016
Agneta Ekman
Tall-Maja
2013
Joakim Eneroth
Swedish Red: Comfortably Secure
2013
Björn Engberg
Bear Field Mountains
2017
Eric Ericson
Palmyra
2008
August Eriksson
The Walk
2016
Bengt-Arne Falk
Polaroid SX-70
2014
Maja Forsslund
Akt
2013
Carl Fries
I svenska marker: bilder ur vårt lands växt- och djurliv
1930
Catharina Gotby
Presence
2011
Claes Grundsten
Dag Hammarskjölds fjällvärld
2007
Denise Grünstein
59 buketter från min trädgård – och lite till
2007
Annika von Hausswolff
Grand Theory Hotel
2016
Linda Hofvander
I am Silver and Exact
2015
Martina Hoogland Ivanow
Satellite
Circular Wait
Second Nature
2015
Åke Hultman
Fotografiska teckningar
1992
Ewa-Mari Johansson
Image 2000-2008
2016
Gerry Johansson
Hattfabriken: Luckenwalde
2012
Gerry Johansson, Carl-Johan Malmberg, Gunnar Smoliansky
Trivia
1992
Gerry Johansson
Tyre Choice
2017
Patrik Karlström
The Journey to Success
2015
Anders Krisár
Chords No 1-17
2002
Hyun-Jin Kwak
The island: A Case Study of a Collector’s Mind
2011
Jenny Källman
The Rectangle’s Sharp Stare
2015
Klara Källström, Thobias Fäldt, Johannes Wahlström
The Last of the Lucky; You Can’t Always Get What You Want
2017
Mårten Lange
The Mechanism
2017
Inka & Niclas Lindergård
The Belt of Venus and the Shadow of the Earth
2016
Åke E:son Lindman
Experiment
2017
Tova Mozard
Ghost Light
2013
Anna Nordquist Andersson
Black Chamber
2018
Georg Oddner
Herbarium
2000
Lennart Olson
From One Side to the Other: Bridges
2000
Mikael Olsson
Södrakull Frösakull
2010
Bertil Quirin
Bohuslän i svartvitt: fotografier och berättelser från det gångna seklet
2001
Kalle Sanner
Album
2010
Helene Schmitz
Borderlands
2015
Osvald Sirén
Bilder från Grekland
1935
Ulf Sjöstedt
Nya bilder
1981
Gunnar Smoliansky
Träd
2017
Gunnar Smoliansky
Waldemarsudde
2004
Ewa Stackelberg
Fotogram: Fotografi utan kamera
2015
Karl-Johan Stigmark
Sprickor och andra sprickor
2010
Anna Strand
Nagoya Notebook
2014
Carl-Erik Ström
Fotografens makt
1979
Christer Strömholm
Poste restante
2016
Otmar Thormann
Fotografier – variationer
1984
Jan Töve
Faraway/Nearby
2017
Margot Wallard
Natten
2017
Frank Watson
Juli 1980
1987
Magnus Westerborn
The Radiation Mask Series
2017
Årets bilder 1934
The Self
Björn Abelin
Bläck: tatueringar, hud, minnen
2010
Lotta Antonsson
I Am a Woman
2016
Swedish artist Lotta Antonsson's recent work recalls her fascination with the late 1960s and '70s, in a style 'where documentary and fiction blur in a merging of social and sexual revolutions.'
Yngve Baum
Om mamma
2004/2005
Kenny Bengtsson
Jag kom ensam
2016
Casia Bromberg
Juicy Body
2017
Tina Carlsson
Ellerine Sağlik
2018
Trinidad Carrillo
No Date
2016
Aida Chehrehgosha
You’re the Ones to Blame
2014
Anna Clarén
Close to Home
2013
The pictures in this book are of people who belong to or are close to my family. They are also of the landscapes where I live: Biskops-Arnö, Stockholm and Skåne in Sweden. The pictures are mostly taken during the years 2009 to 2012, during a period in my life when I have been blessed with so many beautiful things. I have three children and a husband and we live in a house in the beautiful Swedish countryside.
I bought my first camera at the age of nine with money that I had saved up. The pictures that I took with it are pale, the colors distorted. Those pictures have been an inspiration for this book. Not so much because of their content, but because of the passion for documenting my life that I remember feeling when I took them. How all of my pocket money was spent on film and developing and how I could spend hours looking at pictures of everyday events. As a grown woman I suspect that the pictures served the purpose of bearing witness of my very existence and of that there was a place for me in the scheme of things. I think they were also an attempt to make permanent, to nail down, those fleeting moments.
My husband, who is more analytically inclined, has told me that as a child he would sometimes lie awake at night calculating how old he, his parents and his little sister would have to become in order to die of old age on the same day and then drift off to sleep when he had made the numbers add up.
When I look at those old photo albums from my childhood in the 70’s today I discover that what they were meant to prevent has befallen the evidence itself; the bad technical quality of the color film has made the images slowly fade away. And that’s just it. There is no escaping it, the transience. And all the love in my life doesn’t make it go away.
Sarah Cooper & Nina Gorfer
Interruptions
2016
Peter de Ru
Sven
2008
Karl Henrik Edlund
Bright Hours
2016
Bruno Ehrs
Memories of
2011
Joakim Eneroth
Utan slut: en koan
2003
Tina Enghoff
Från en tid: fotografier
1999
JH Engström
Haunts
2006
JH Engström
Sketch of Paris
2013
Maria Friberg
Maria Friberg
2005
Katinka Goldberg
Surfacing
2011
Catharina Gotby
Med kroppen som slagfält
2004
Catharina Gotby
Sång
2008
Monika Gottfridsson
Mor är rar
1994
Denise Grünstein
Malplacé
2005
Kajsa Gullberg
Unravelled
2014
Hans Hammarskiöld
Billa och jag: en sommarsaga
1959
Walter Hirsch
Bilder dagbok
1988
Helga Härenstam
Berättelser för en 87 år gammal dam
2012
Helga Härenstam
Sunshine & Shadow
2016
Nina Korhonen
Minne. Muisto. Memory
1997
Nina Korhonen
Rewind the Photographs
2009
Halil Koyutürk
I am Playing Ping Pong Now
2014
Pelle Kronestedt
Täby – eller Jag började skriva en bok som hette Mordet på Palme
2015
Hyun-Jin Kwak
“A Script for Verification”: Girls in Uniform
2006
Jenny Källman
Surveillance
2012
Tuija Lindström
A Dream If Ever There Was One
In The Beginning There Was Everything
2012
David Magnusson
Purity
2014
Maria Miesenberger
Sverige
2011
Anneè Olofsson
Inside
2002
Susanne Otterberg
Ingen reklam längre, tack!
2013
Julia Peirone
More than Violet
2012
Anders Petersen & JH Engström
From Back Home
2009
Helena Påls
För att
2006
Ulf Sjöstedt
Cogito ergo sum
2005
Marie Sjøvold
Dust Catches Light
2011
Sanna Sjöswärd
Rötter
2006
Jefferik Stocklassa
Dagar med Dai
1987
Christer Strömholm
Les amies de Place Blanche
2012
Christer Strömholm
Till minnet av mig själv
2010
Linda Maria Thompson
In Place of Memory
2016
Agnes Thor
As the River Runs
2015
Lotta Törnroth
Att vänta på det oundvikliga: berättelser från havet
2014
Ellinor Westin
Come and Seek with me Elsewhere: the Work of Ellinor Westin
2015
Johan Willner
Boy Stories
2012
Between documentation and staging: childhood as the source of mysterious images
Johan Willner (*1971 in Stockholm) makes it difficult to tell to what degree his black-and-white and color photographs are renditions of real or staged events. Inspired by music, literature, and philosophy, the artist discovers mysterious motifs in front of the backdrops provided by nature or the city, beaches or hospitals. This publication presents the series Boy Stories, which is based on images from his own memory and which Willner has been pursuing since 2006—not to reconstruct the details of past events but with the intention of creating a universally valid manifestation of existential questions. The slightly faded colors, often in complimentary hues of green and red on a lighter background, lend the photographs a fascinating aesthetic that belies their dramatic depths while at the same time creating an interesting contrast to the subjects, such as the fragility of the child within the man.
Johan Willner
Wind Upon the Face of Waters
2016
Thomas Wågström
Nackar
2014
Thomas Wågström
På insidan av allvaret: ett tillstånd
1994
Pernilla Zetterman
Behave
2009
Pernilla Zetterman
Turn Down Center Line
2017
The Society
Göran Assbring
I Eritrea
1986
Kalle Assbring
Fadern, sonen och Göran
2016
Jens Assur
If you love global warming: honk!
Hunger
Livnära
Det gröna infernot
Suécia
2010
Yngve Baum
Skeppsvarv [Eriksbergs mekaniska verkstad]
1974
Yngve Baum
Ujamaa: människor i Tanzania
1970
Micke Berg
Stockholm blues: fotografier
1994
Elin Berge
Drottninglandet
2009
Astrid Bergman Sucksdorff
Chendru får en tiger: en berättelse om en pojke i den indiska djungeln
1959
Kerstin Bernhard
Brödminnen
1987
Johan Bävman
Albino: i skuggan av solen
2009
Emanuel Cederqvist
Observatören
2016
Dawid & Håkan Lind
Verkligen? Uppgifter om vårat svenska samhälle
1978
Carl Johan De Geer
Pengar eller livet
Nr 2/84
1984
Lotten von Düben
Lotten von Düben: i Lappland
1991
Ann Christine Eek
Arbeta – inte slita ut sig! En bok om dubbelarbete idag och förr i tiden
1974
Ekodok -90
I människans hand: fotografier kring det ekologiska landskapet
1994
Tina Enghoff
Migrant Documents
2013
Monica Englund
En födelse
1982
JH Engström
Härbärge
Shelter
1997
Carl Johan Erikson
Tank 1-46
2015
Bengt-Arne Falk
Café-liv
1979
Andreas Feininger
Stockholm
1936
Sven Gillsäter
Pias resa i Heliga Landet
1960
Cecilia Grönberg
Omkopplingar: avskrifter, listor, dokument, arkiv (med särskilt avseende på Midsommarkransen – Telefonplan)
2006
KW Gullers
Göteborg – hamnstaden
1947
KW Gullers
Stockholm bakom fasaden
1949
KW Gullers
Sverige, ditt nya land
Ruotsi sinun uusi maasi
1970
Kerstin Hamilton
The Hambantota Connection: Constructing Landscapes, Contesting Modernity
2014
Paul Hansen
Människa, människa
2006
Anders Hansson
Flykt
2014
Lina Haskel
Folkets hus
2013
Rune Hassner
Parispromenad
1950
Joanna Helander
Kobieta: en bok om kvinnor i Polen
1978
Jean Hermanson
Dom svarta: en bok om gjuteriarbetare i Sverige
1970
Jean Hermanson
Nere på verkstadsgolvet: en bok om metallarbetare
1971
Pieter ten Hoopen
Hungry Horse
2015
Olof Jarlbro
Refuge
2015
Jens S Jensen
Dom kallar oss bilbyggare: en berättelse om arbete och arbetare vid Volvo Torslandaverken i Göteborg
1978
Lars Johansson
Skrivet i vatten
1986
Tore Johnson
Okänt Paris
1954
Sune Jonsson
Byn med det blå huset
1989
Sune Jonsson
Minnesbok över den svenske bonden
1971
Sune Jonsson
Prag augusti 1968: en bildrapport
1968
Petter Karlsson
En dag i Sverige: 3000 fotografer – 24 timmar
2003
Stig T Karlsson
Har Indien en chans?
1969
Stig T Karlsson
Sverigeresan: ett sommaralbum från 1980-talet
1988
Annica Karlsson Rixon
At the Time of the Third Reading/ Во время третего чтения
2016
Gun Kessle
Albansk utmaning
1970
Kent Klich
Gaza Works
2017
Kent Klich
El Niño: en berättelse om gatubarn i Mexico City
1999
Mattias Klum
Vår tid på jorden: välfärd inom planetens hållbara gränser
2012
Anders Kristensson
Spår av en befolkning
2005
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt
Europe, Greece, Athens, Acropolis
2012
Mari Lagerquist
Native Plants, Invasive Plants
2015
Björn Larsson
Brandplats 3
2013
Jens Olof Lasthein
Moments in between: Pictures From Former Yugoslavia
2000
Ulla Lemberg
Se kvinnan! Bilder 1971-1982
1983
Ivar Lo-Johansson, Anna Riwkin-Brick, Tore Johnson, Sven Järlås, Gunnar Lundh
Den sociala fotobildboken
1977
Håkan Ludwigson
Balls and Bulldust: Photographs
2015
Johan Lundberg
Another Day of Life in Romanipen
2005
Tyrone Martinsson
Arctic Views: Passages in Time
2015
Hannah Modigh
Hillbilly Heroin, Honey
2010
Hannah Modigh
Hurricane Season
2016
Björn Myrman
Bilder från Colombia
1978
Lennart Nilsson
Ett barn blir till
1965
Lennart Nilsson
Ett barn blir till
2009
Per L-B Nilsson
CADU – Etiopisk utmaning: en sammanfattning av verksamheten under första avtalsperioden 1967-70
1971
Per L-B Nilsson
Chicago, Ireland
2017
"Photography and the modern city are two intimately interwoven phenomena – the city’s ever-changing street life has exerted a strong attraction for many photographers and belongs to one of photography’s oldest genres.
Swedish photographer Per L-B NILSSON’s first trip to Ireland took place in the mid-1960s and since then he has returned regularly with his camera.
The majority of the pictures in this book were taken in Dublin in 1967, but it also includes images from Galway, Tralee, Tubercurry and Derry in the ’70s and ’80s.
The timeframe of the Chicago pictures is significantly shorter. They were made between 1981 and ’84 in conjunction with Per L-B NILSSON’s studies at the Institute of Design.
The character of the places has influenced the method of photography and the style of the pictures. The grey light and rain lends the Ireland pictures a tone completely different from Chicago’s sharp light and hard contrasts." (publisher's note)
Maud Nycander
Asfaltnätter: en berättelse om Ann
1987
Ralph Nykvist
I Sverige
1976
Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin
Ecce homo: Photographs 1996-1998
1998
Peo Olsson
Umbra Hominis
2014
Misha Pedan
M
2015
Hasse Persson
Amerikabilder
1974
Anders Petersen
Café Lehmitz
2004
Cafe Lehmitz, a beer joint at the Reeperbahn, was a meeting point for many who worked in Hamburg’s red-light district: prostitutes, pimps, transvestites, workers, and petty criminals. Anders Petersen was 18 years old when he first visited Hamburg in 1962, chanced upon Cafe Lehmitz, and established friends that made an impact on his life. In 1968 he returned to Lehmitz, found new ‘regulars,’ renewed contact and began to take pictures.
His photographs, which we first published in book form in 1978, have become classics of their genre- Tom Waits used our cover picture for his album Raindogs. Their candidness and authenticity continue to move the viewer. The solidarity evident in them prevents voyeurism or false pity arising vis-a-vis a milieu generally referred to as ‘asocial.’ The ‘other’ world of Cafe Lehmitz, which no longer exists in this form, becomes visible as a lively community with its own self-image and dignity.
Anders Petersen
Fängelse
1984
Lennart af Petersens
Klara: en stadsdel i förvandling
1957
Håkan Pieniowski
Rzeszów: bland polska bönder
1983
Anna Riwkin-Brick
Miriam bor i en kibbutz
1969
Anna Riwkin-Brick
Palestina
1948
Carl Gustaf Rosenberg
Svenskar i dagens gärning
1939
Johannes Samuelsson
Att skriva ett modernt äventyr
2010
Per Skoglund
Stockholms satelliter: rekordåren 1960-1979
2000
Ewa Stackelberg
Timmar med jordemor
1991
Johan Sundgren
I lampans sken
By Lamplight
2012
Christer Themptander
Amerikana: i odjurets buk
1976
Ola Terje
Emmaboda i våra hjärtan: porträtt av ett samhälle
1973
Lars Tunbjörk
I Love Borås!
2006
Lars Tunbjörk
Office
2002
Odd Uhrbom
Gruva
1969
Ahmet Unver
Far away/Långt borta/Gurbet
2012
John S. Webb
Spår
1988
Sven Westerlund
Bunker
Retro
Vertex
2011
Hendrik Zeitler
A Place of One’s Own
2011
Books behind glass
Esaias Baitel
Zonen
1982
Yngve Baum
Kiki, en liten man
1967
Trinidad Carrillo
Naini and the Sea of Wolves
2008
Anna Clarén
Holding
2006
This work might be regarded as a diary documenting my life during a period when I took pictures 24/7, even in the night I let the shutter be wide open, exposing while I was asleep. The people in the pictures are persons that are close to me; parents, my sister, my closest friends, my self and also some people I only met by accident on the street.
In this work I use external, concrete attributes, things and events to describe interior associations, an imaginary reality. A reality which for me is entirely real.
The title of the book is a term derived from psychiatry, which means that each and every child should be entitled to a loving and caring environment by her or his parents. This child will enter life with the feeling of being held. Held by her parents, her self and by life itself.
The one child that for any reason grows up in a family where this love is not possible, will, as an adult, constantly find herself in an endless, desperate search for holding. And in some cases will experience a feeling of falling.
The search for somewhere to hold on to will express itself in various ways; symbiotic love affairs, destructiveness, escaping, a constant feeling of alienation, of being outside.
The book’s story is, in many ways, a self portrait, but deep down inside, human beings are very alike. In our searching, the questions, confusions, we may find a universal strand of humanity; the difference between us lies often in the answers. And therefore, this work is a self portrait with universally human questions/stories.
Carl Johan De Geer
Med kameran som tröst
1980
Carl Johan De Geer
Pengar eller livet
1970
Agneta Ekman
Tall-Maja
1967
JH Engström
Trying to dance
2003
Jens S Jensen
Hammarkullen
1974
Sune Jonsson
Byn med det blå huset
1959
Nina Korhonen
Anna, American Mummu
2004
Mårten Lange
Machina
2007
Tuija Lindström
Tuija Lindström
1989
Ingrid Orfali
Wemen
1989
Anders Petersen
Café Lehmitz
1978
Anna Riwkin-Brick
Elle Kari
1954
Christer Strömholm
Poste restante
1967
Christer Strömholm
Till minnet av mig själv
1965
Lars Tunbjörk
Landet utom sig: bilder från Sverige
1993
Henry Buergel Goodwin
Konstnärsporträtt
1917
Johannes Jaeger
Molins fontän i fotografi
1866
Eva Klasson
Le troisième angle
1976
August Wilhelm Malm
Monographie illustrée du baleinoptère trouvée le 29 Octobre 1865 sur la côte occidentale de Suède: Avec 18 planches contenant 29 photographies, 2 planches lithographiées et 3 gravures en bois dans le texte; toutes faites aussitôt après la mort du baleinoptère
1867
MALM, Auguste Wilhelm (1821-1882)
Monographie Illustrée du Baleinoptère trouvé le 29 Octobre 1865 sur la Côte Occidentale de Suède
Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt et Fils, Imprimeurs de Roi, 1867. Folio. (16 1/4 x 11 inches). xxiii, [1], [2], 110pp. 29 albumen photographs mounted onto 18 sheets, 2 lithographed plates. (Minor foxing to the text) [With:] Illustrerad Tidning. Stockholm, 30. June 1866. 4 unnumb. leaves with a few text illustrations. Folded. Newspaper containing a long article about the whale with heading Malmska hvalen. [And with:] Nagra Blad om Hvaldjur i Allmanhet och Balaenoptera Carolinae. Goteborg, 1866. 20pp. Publisher's yellow illustrated wrappers.
Publisher's blue cloth, covers elaborately blocked in blind, upper cover titled in gilt, flat spine lettered in gilt
Rare photographically illustrated monograph on the blue whale and an inadvertent photographic work of art: one of only fifty copies produced.
In 1865, a 16-meter blue whale beached outside the town of Näset, south of Gothenburg. This rare work, limited to just fifty copies, documents and photographically illustrates the whale being brought onto land, its scientific measurement and elaborate dissection. Malm, curator at the Göteborg Museum of Natural History, with great difficulty, transformed this whale into the renowned Malmska valen, the only stuffed blue whale in the world, still on view today.
The ten photographs depict the whale on the dock at Lindholmen after it was brought in, towed by three steamers and two coal barges. The following 16 plates show various dissections, each carefully labelled and identified. The final image is a photograph of a model created by Malm. The photographs were likely taken by J. P. Peterson, Göteborgs Musei Fotografiska Atelier.
Malm's monograph is very rare, with the only other example we have been able to trace on the market being in the Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection, selling in 1996.
Svenska folktyper: bildgalleri, ordnat efter rasbiologiska principer och försett med en orienterande översikt
1919
Anna Riwkin-Brick
Svensk danskonst på scen och i skola: koreografiskt planschverk
1932
