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Christer Strömholm 
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Stories
 | Polaroids (1977) About twenty Polaroids created by Strömholm in 1976 present the assemblies of images and objects and constitute so many visual plays on words that reveal the profound influence of surrealism on Strömholm. |
 | Portraits of artists (1963) Strömholm is very interested in art history and is very close to contemporary artists. He makes numerous portraits and discovers that he possesses a particular talent «to break through the shell of the artists».
Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Tinguely et Spoerri, Le Corbusier, André Breton, Tapiès and Fernand Léger |
 | Place Blanche, 1956-1962 (1962) The series Place Blanche is dedicated to the transvestites and the transsexuals of this Parisian district. Strömholm does not pose his models in the nude. Never a Peeping Tom, he knows how to protect mystery and ambiguity. |
 | Paris (1960) “The pictures of a lost Paris does not call up our nostalgia but revive our curiosity and support our interest as a document. How explain in another way that we could, today, gaze with pleasure at the painted cloths of the fairground stalls in Pigalle as well as the “ portrait” of an impeded snake or the mischievous pose of a young transvestite ?”
Christian Caujolle |
 | Fotoform (1952) Betwenn 1950 and 1953, Strömholm joined up the Fotoform group led by Otto Steinert. He had the assumed name of Christer Christian and was took part in the Subjective Fotografie collective exhibition". |
Books
 | In memory of himself Books such as In Memory of Myself and Poste Restante, not to mention a position as head of the eminent Fotoskolan academy in Stockholm, made Christer Strömholm one of Sweden’s most influential twentieth-century photographers. He differed from his colleagues in other ways, too--for instance, he didn’t mind being the subject of a photograph himself. In fact, he enjoyed it. Strömholm passed away in 2002, but these portraits of him by some of Europe’s finest photographers, including Lars Tunbjörk, JH Engström and Anders Petersen, live on. Text by: Greger Ulf Nilson, Lars Tunbjork Publisher: Steidl (2007) 144 pages Size: 25.5x21 cm ISBN :3865212980 
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 | Christer Strömholm Père de la photographie suédoise moderne, Christer Strömholm (1918-2002) continue d'exercer une grande influence sur l'ensemble de la scène photographique scandinave. Son oeuvre foisonnante et éclectique s'est progressivement imposée pour accéder aujourd'hui à une légitime notoriété. Text by: Christian Caujolle Publisher: Actes Sud (2006) 144 pages Size: 19x12,5 cm ISBN :978-2742760268
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 | Poste Restante Originally published in 1967, Poste Restante has become one of the most collectible photography books from the mid-twentieth century, ranking alongside the better-known publications of Robert Frank and Ed van der Elsken. This photographic autobiography details Strömholm’s 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 that prefigures much of contemporary photographic publishing and art practice. Text by: Tor-Ivan Odulf Publisher: Steidl (2006) 120 pages Size: 25 x 20 cm ISBN :978-3865212207
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 | ON VERRA BIEN ON VERRA BIEN. En majuscules et sans ponctuation, en gros caractères d’imprimerie sur papier brun, ces trois mots, protégés par un cadre en format panoramique, ont accompagné Christer Strömholm sa vie durant. D’appartement en maison, de ville en ville, et jusque dans sa chambre d’hôpital. Publisher: Bildverksamheten Strömholm & Färgfabriken (2002) 175 pages Size: 21x24,5 ISBN :91-973787-6-3
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 | Nueve segundos de mi vida La obra del fotógrafo sueco Christer Strömholm es profundamente personal, en ella conviven lo prohibido y lo sórdido. Su fuerza personal radica en su incorruptibilidad y sencillez. Sus fotografías nunca dan respuestas, pero sí hacen preguntas. Son adivinanzas y jeroglíficos, crucigramas con palabras estrafalarias y ocultas, frecuentemente con doble significado y faltas de ortografía cometidas adrede. Las soluciones se encuentran no en lo visible sino en lo intuido. El trabajo fotográfico de Strömholm ha sido determinante en el mundo nórdico y en la formación de una nueva generación de fotógrafos. Publisher: Concalcuta (2000) 195 pages Size: 21x16 cm ISBN :970182930X
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 | Imprints A master of the street photograph, Strömholm documents the slightly odd and sexy, excerpted from the flow of everyday life in Sweden of the 1950s, 1960s, and later. Text by: Christian Caujolle Publisher: Hasselblad Center (1998) 160 pages Size: 14,6x21 cm ISBN :9163064839
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 | Kloka Ord Publisher: Legus (1997) ISBN :91-88192-42-3
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