Tom Sandberg Photographs Flick through Norway Alec Soth pick

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"The first major publication dedicated to one of Norway's most important photographers. Working in a signature modulating gray scale, the late Norwegian photographer Tom Sandberg spent decades rendering the world according to an exacting vision, training his eye on the shapes and forms of the everyday-dark abstractions of asphalt and sea, the hard edges of an automobile, an ominously curved tunnel, an anonymous figure casting a shadow-to plumb the nature of photographic seeing. His pictures are subtle yet transformative, studies of stillness that radiate mystery. A perfectionist in the darkroom, Sandberg was acutely sensitive to the rich spectrum of black and white, and his handmade prints, at times printed on aluminum and canvas, project a powerful physical presence. Although Sandberg is esteemed in his native Norway and throughout Scandinavia and Europe, his oeuvre is less known in the United States and other parts of the world. This monograph, produced in close collaboration with the Tom Sandberg Foundation in Oslo, is a long-overdue celebration of this distinguished artist. "
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[@photobookguy1380]

I was not sure about this one, but it is quietly elegant. Worth watching a couple of times to get the effect. Recommended.

[@low3242]

cool book

[@photobookguy1380]

I enjoyed it, I think it will be well regarded in the coming years.

[@edwardferry8247]

Thank you, I heard Elizabeth Bishop as you moved through these. Something about her exact eye for the dot of detail unfolding out into metaphysical space, all things joined and separate. Quizzical moments of beauty. Tarkovsky’s Mirror too, just that something imperceptible but you know it somehow.

[@daver4451]

Lovely

[@bowenisland100]

Gorgeous book. I'm confused by the title. Do you mean "Norway"? What do you mean it is an Alec Soth pick? Thanks!

[@photobookguy1380]

The photographer is Norwegian, and Alec Soth picked this book as one of his top 10 of the year when it came out.

[@theviewer5104]

tnx for the upload. btw, why did you skipped a page at 1:22 ?

[@photobookguy1380]

There was one nude, and if it gets an over 18 rating it means lots of people won't see the video so I skipped it.

[@user-oq6de8sd6y]

In the top 10, honestly I don't understand, I don't like a lot of photos and I think there are really too many, the editing is not selective enough. It's just my opinion.

[@photobookguy1380]

I agree with there being too many similar photos, but the books is more striking in the flesh.