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Jordabok by Sune Jonsson

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A Swedish photobook classic by one of the true masters of the genre. In Jordabok, Sune Jonsson portrays farmers and the man-made landscape. Texts in Swedish.

Between 1961 and 1995, Jonsson was hired as a photographer at the Museum of Västerbotten in Umeå, where he became dedicated to long-term cultural photographic works, mainly in the province of Västerbotten. Thematically, his photography was focused on the rural population, farmers, the man-made landscape and religious gatherings. Jonsson’s artistic visual production was inspired by photographers such as August Sander, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Wayne Miller and Edward Steichen, notably in the photo exhibition The Family of Man in 1955. Swedish writer Ivar Lo-Johansson and his social work Den sociala fotobildboken was an important role model

biography

Sune Jonsson (b. 1930, d. 30 January 2009) was a Swedish documentary photographer and writer.

Jonsson was born in Nyåker outside Nordmaling in the province of Västerbotten, Sweden. After studying folklore and literature in Stockholm and Uppsala, Jonsson returned in the early 1960s to northern Sweden. His debut book Byn med det blå huset (The village with the blue house) was published in 1959 and includes personal portrays of people in Djupsjönäs and his native village Nyåker. As in his second photobook, Timotejvägen, the relationship between text and image play an important role.

Publisher

LTs Förlag

Published

1976

ISBN

913-60060-7-6

Volume

224 pages

Type

Hardcover

Format

265×205 mm

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