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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Editor | Greger Ulf Nilson, Lars Hall |
Publisher | Steidl |
Year | 2006 |
Cover | Cloth |
Language | English |
ISBN | 978-3-86521-298-6 |
Pages | 144 |
Weight | 920 g |
Illustrations | with 100 duotone and color plates |
More | |
Contributors | Gösta Flemming |
Article ID | art-07525 |
Christer Strömholm (1918-2002), born in Stockholm, is one of Swedish photography's major personalities. Strömholm's pictures from the early fifties consist of sharply-focussed black and white compositions of walls, shadows and clear-cut interiors. While periodically living in Paris during the 1950s and 1960s he developed a style more in tune with street-photography and it was at this time that he made his famous portraits of transvestites at the Place Blanche.
With books such as In Memory of Himself and Poste Restante, and as the leader of the legendary academy of photography “Fotoskolan”, Christer Strömholm became one of the most influential post war photographers. In many ways Strömholm differed from most other photographers, for instance he did not mind being the object of a photograph. In fact, he enjoyed it.
While Strömholm has now passed away, he lives on in a large number of photographic portraits of him made by some of Europe’s finest photographers. As a homage to Christer, many of these pictures have been compiled in this book.