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Christer Strömholm
In Memory of Himself
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 instanc 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.
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
In Memory of Himself
Text by Gösta Flemming
Edited by Greger Ulf Nilson and Lars Hall
Book design by Lars Hall and Greger Ulf Nilson
144 pages with 100 duotone and color plates
8 x 9.75 in. / 20.5 x 25 cm
Hardcover with a tipped-in selfportrait plate
US $ 45.00 / £ 25.00 / R 38.00
ISBN 3-86521-298-0
ISBN-13 978-3-86521-298-6
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