Sune Jonsson: The Village with the Blue House; Images of the Children of Grace; Monograph

by Greger Ulf Nilson (Editor), Henrik Nygren (Editor), Stefan Andersson (Editor)

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 V0/00sterbotten, 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.

630 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2009