Sune Jonsson

roman

Stationskarl Albin E. Anderssons minnen

Greger Ulf Nilson

Henrik Nygren

Often compared to Walker Evans and August Sander, Sune Jonsson is Sweden's preeminent documentary photographer. For more than half a century, with the sharp eye of an anthropologist, he has captured the drama of societies facing the effects of modernization with a unique blend of classical photography and evocative writing. Particularly concerned with the disappearance of rural ways of life, he has focused on agriculture in order to provide a definitive look at the changes industrialization has wrought on the cultivated landscape. In addition to documenting V sterbotten, the city where he has long lived and worked, over the years his vernacular photography has also captured New York, Congo and Prague. This slipcased, clothbound, three-volume set with tipped-on interior images contains an essential retrospective look at the artist's work, as well as reprints of two of Jonsson's most important books: "The Village with the Blue House," his first monograph, published in 1959; and "Images of the Children of Grace" from 1963. Jonsson is the author of more than 20 monographs, as well as numerous short stories, novels and documentary films.

The Village with the Blue House / Images of the Children of Grace / Monograph

Val Williams

This is the first ever retrospective monograph on Sune Jonssons life work. His imagery is populated by people who appear distant, but who in fact exist only a few decades back in time. Sune Jonsson (1930-2009) spent nearly his entire life working in the remote, northern Swedish counties of Ångermanland and Västerbotten. His life mission was to document the farming communities found in the agricultural landscapes of northern Sweden, whose decline parallel with the growth of an industrial and urban society he witnessed with his own eyes. This monograph covers the majority of Sune Jonssons works, from the debut book Byn med det blå huset to Och tiden blir ett förunderligt ting. The text is written by Valerie Williams, Professor of the History and Culture of Photography at the University of Arts, London, and former curator at the Hasselblad Center in Sweden. In addition Sune Jonssons own texts are provided as entryways to his various photographic projects.

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