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Christer Strömholm
Poste Restante
Originally published in 1967, Poste Restante has become one of the most collectible photography books from the midtwentieth
century, ranking alongside the better known publications of Robert Frank and Ed van der Elsken. Strömholm’s
photographic autobiography details his extensive travels across the globe in a book constructed as an Existentialist
diary. Juxtaposing the urbane and the macabre, combining portraiture and street scenes with abstract photographic
fragments, the book uses metaphor and visual pun in an unrelenting stream of consciousness. In its sequence and
design it is a book which pre-figures much of contemporary photographic publishing and art practice.
Christer Strömholm, born 1918 in Stockholm, studied painting in Dresden and Stockholm, before discovering
photography whilst studying in Paris after the war. He joined Otto Steinert’s Fotoform group and whilst working and
travelling through France, Spain, Japan, India, America and Africa, he developed his own brand of ‘subjective
photography’. During this time he began teaching and became the father figure to major Swedish photographers of the
late twentieth century. He was appointed Professor of Photography in 1993 and was awarded the Hasselblad Award in
1997. He died on January 11, 2002.
Christer Strömholm
Poste Restante
Original text by Tor-Ivan Odulf
Original book design by Christer Strömholm,
Tor-Ivan Odulf and Erik Pettersson
120 pages with 96 color plates
7.75 x 9.5 in./20 x 24 cm
Softcover with a booklet (containing the english translation
of the original text) in a handmade collector’s box
Limited edition of a thousand numbered copies
US$100.00/£60.00/€85.00
ISBN 978-3-86521-220-7
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