Lars Tunbjörk: Country Beside Itself / Landet utom sig
€40
Keyword: 1990s, everyday-life, portraits, Sweden, Swedish culture, Swedish photographer
Size: 295 x 280 mmPages: 130
Format: hardcover
Illustration: in colour
Language: Swedish, English
Editor: Maud Nycander
Text: Göran Greider, Lena Kvist, Thomas Tidholm
Book design: Greger Ulf Nilson / GunLab
Publisher: Bokförlaget Arena / Lars Tunbjörk Foundation
Pub Year: 2025
Weight: 1158 gr
ISBN: 9789189967175
Description
Article no.: 9789189967175
New, extended edition of the seminal book Country Beside itself [Landet utom sig]. Photographer Lars Tunbjörk (1956–2015) saw Sweden like no one else.
From the publisher:
His photographic eye was sharply revealing and ironic, but not without tenderness. He viewed the country from the perspective of the periphery. Always Borås. His gaze was new because he showed what was invisible to us: the image of ourselves and our society. From Borås, Lars Tunbjörk’s career reached out across the entire world. The images that raised so many questions have become part of our collective memory. This is photography as narrative, documentation, and outstanding art.
In the photo project Landet utom sig, Lars Tunbjörk’s breakthrough work, he sought out people in campgrounds, shopping malls, and department stores to tell the story of the garish arrival of market economy in Sweden—a societal shift that, in the 1990s, was also global. With his medium-format camera and homemade flash, he created absurdist images full of both humor and melancholy. “A Tunbjörk” became a concept, and he wrote himself into the history of photography.
Landet utom sig is a new edition of the book of the same name, first published in 1993 (Journal). In addition to the original photographs and texts, the book includes a new foreword by Lena Kvist and an updated text by Göran Greider.
From the publisher:
His photographic eye was sharply revealing and ironic, but not without tenderness. He viewed the country from the perspective of the periphery. Always Borås. His gaze was new because he showed what was invisible to us: the image of ourselves and our society. From Borås, Lars Tunbjörk’s career reached out across the entire world. The images that raised so many questions have become part of our collective memory. This is photography as narrative, documentation, and outstanding art.
In the photo project Landet utom sig, Lars Tunbjörk’s breakthrough work, he sought out people in campgrounds, shopping malls, and department stores to tell the story of the garish arrival of market economy in Sweden—a societal shift that, in the 1990s, was also global. With his medium-format camera and homemade flash, he created absurdist images full of both humor and melancholy. “A Tunbjörk” became a concept, and he wrote himself into the history of photography.
Landet utom sig is a new edition of the book of the same name, first published in 1993 (Journal). In addition to the original photographs and texts, the book includes a new foreword by Lena Kvist and an updated text by Göran Greider.