Landskrona Foto: Jean Hermanson och Dublins Barn
Jean Hermanson
Landskrona Foto
Swedish and English
Text by Kristian Lundberg.
Softcover
40 pages
360x290mm
2016
ISBN 9789198303438
This paperback collection boasts the work of Swedish visual artist Jean Hermanson. It documents his travels to Dublin and the photographs of children he took in 1967.
About the artist
Jean Hermanson (1938–2012) grew up in Norrahammar in Småland, but at the age of 18 he moved to Stockholm to train as a photographer at Ateljé Welinder. At the end of the 1960s he travelled around Sweden with camera in hand. The photo book Byggnadsarbetare (“Construction Workers”) appeared in 1969. Together with the author Folke Isaksson he went on a long reportage journey in the Swedish industrial landscape 1969–70. This resulted in the books Dom svarta (“The Black Ones”) and Nere på verkstadsgolvet (“Down on the Workshop Floor”). In the 1970s he made a number of trips to Ireland, Guinea-Bissau, Vietnam and Spain. Later he made documentary films about the closure of two shipyards, Öresundsvarvet in Landskrona and Kockums in Malmö. The photographs have acquired a historical and documentary value over and above the political dynamite they contained when they were first published. They are narratives of a time, a society and a class that has mostly vanished today.
(source: https://www.landskronafoto.org/en/jean-hermanson/)
About the Organisation
Landskrona Fotofestival is an annual photography festival in Landskrona, Sweden. Ten days of exhibitions, photo books,seminars, portfolio reviews, artist talks, and more. Since the start four years ago Landskrona Foto Festival has established its position as an international meeting place for photographers and those with an interest in photography. Renowned artists are exhibited alongside new, promising names and many of the pictures on display have never been shown in Sweden or Scandinavia before.
landskronafoto.org
(source: https://www.landskronafoto.org/en/photobook-days/)
