Ulf Lundin: Pictures of a Family / Bilder av en familj
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Keyword: 1997-2024, snapshots, life, Swedish photographer
Size: 247 x 175 mm Pages: 124 Format: hardcover Language: Swedish/English Illustration: in colour & b/w Editor: Ulf Lundin, August Eriksson Text: Ulf Lundin Book design: Ulf Lundin, Magnus Karlsson Publisher: Skreid Publishing Pub Year: 2024 Weight: 543 gr ISBN: 9789163990304Description
Article no.: 9789163990304
Pictures of a Family offers an intimate glimpse into everyday life and family moments; capturing the beauty of the ordinary with warmth and authenticity.
From the publisher:
In August 1997, Ulf Lundin opened his first solo exhibition, Pictures of a Family, at Galleri Magnus Karlsson in Stockholm. The exhibition was also the gallery’s first in the premises at Riddargatan 29. The work has since been shown in a number of exhibitions, both in Sweden and internationally, and laid the foundation for Ulf Lundin’s artistic practice. Now, almost 30 years later, Lundin has returned to the work and compiled it in book form. Some images have been added and all images have been digitised and edited. The 124-page book presents 64 images from the series and is published by Skreid Publishing.
When we first met we were standing shoulder to shoulder against the gable of Nolby Elementary School. A few metres in front of us, his older brother and some of his friends stood lined up like a firing squad swinging sharpened sticks with freshly stolen apples stuck on them. The apples were slung at us with considerable speed, but we were never hit. Standing there next to him, I could feel his body flinch each time an apple smashed against the pale yellow wall behind us. We lived in the same neighbourhood and that fall we became friends. He was a class ahead of me and was by far the bolder of the two of us. He was always the one to take the first step and I was the one who followed. He always chose a higher point to jump from. He had sex before I did, and when I was thinking about buying a moped he had already sold his. He still lives in the town were we grew up and now he has a wife, two sons, a home in a terraced house and a steady job. The security of his life appalls and attracts me at the same time. It is difficult to point a finger at the choices (if we made any) which have determined our present lives. I have spied on him and his family for a year now and secretly photographed them. There are over a hundred rolls of film in my archives. We have made a contract in which they have given me permission to spy on them. In other words, they know that I'm there but they don't know when.
— Ulf Lundin, 1997
From the publisher:
In August 1997, Ulf Lundin opened his first solo exhibition, Pictures of a Family, at Galleri Magnus Karlsson in Stockholm. The exhibition was also the gallery’s first in the premises at Riddargatan 29. The work has since been shown in a number of exhibitions, both in Sweden and internationally, and laid the foundation for Ulf Lundin’s artistic practice. Now, almost 30 years later, Lundin has returned to the work and compiled it in book form. Some images have been added and all images have been digitised and edited. The 124-page book presents 64 images from the series and is published by Skreid Publishing.
When we first met we were standing shoulder to shoulder against the gable of Nolby Elementary School. A few metres in front of us, his older brother and some of his friends stood lined up like a firing squad swinging sharpened sticks with freshly stolen apples stuck on them. The apples were slung at us with considerable speed, but we were never hit. Standing there next to him, I could feel his body flinch each time an apple smashed against the pale yellow wall behind us. We lived in the same neighbourhood and that fall we became friends. He was a class ahead of me and was by far the bolder of the two of us. He was always the one to take the first step and I was the one who followed. He always chose a higher point to jump from. He had sex before I did, and when I was thinking about buying a moped he had already sold his. He still lives in the town were we grew up and now he has a wife, two sons, a home in a terraced house and a steady job. The security of his life appalls and attracts me at the same time. It is difficult to point a finger at the choices (if we made any) which have determined our present lives. I have spied on him and his family for a year now and secretly photographed them. There are over a hundred rolls of film in my archives. We have made a contract in which they have given me permission to spy on them. In other words, they know that I'm there but they don't know when.
— Ulf Lundin, 1997