À Propos d’Anders Petersen, A Film About With
JH Engström
Éditions de L’oeil
French
Hardcover with DVD
32 pages
140 x 185 mm
2013
ISBN 9782351371497
‘It’s a very straightforward story where I through my camera have followed a person and a photographer I like a lot. It tells about Anders as an artist, but the fact that we know each other well of course colours the film. It became impossible to separate my friend from the artist Anders Petersen’.
Alongside renowned photographer Anders Petersen in his private life and his life as an artist, JH Engström who was his pupil and his assistant before becoming himself a photographer asks here, the emotional turmoil of a life in the day-to-day the doubts of man as those of the photographer … Its position as filmmaker asserts itself in questioning the methods of his mentor, his actions and behaviour full creation. Offering a selection of photographs, the film invites you to discover how to exercise the photographic art Petersen as far as it goes in his artistic development, even in the most intimate or physically degrading situations.
The film offers a wide range of “stills” chosen from Anders Petersen’s enormous production of work through the years. We get to follow how his photography efficiently develops, the further he reaches in his artistic development, into the even more private and physically unrefined.
About the Artist
JH Engström was born in Karlstad in 1969. He is a Swedish photographer and video artist, living and working between Paris and Smedsby (Värmland, Sweden). Engström first grew up in the remote province of Värmland in central Sweden until the family moved to Paris when he was 10 years old. An overwhelming change that prompted him early on to look at his own existence, forging a vision rooted in these contrasting living environments opposing the slow-time energy of the Swedish countryside to the exaltation of Parisian life. In 1993, he settled in Stockholm where he shared the lab with Anders Petersen, a leading figure with a determinant influence in the expressive dimension of his work. He applied these precepts at the Gothenburg University school of photography until 1997 before moving to New York between 1998 and 2000 where he spent time at Robert Frank’s studio.
jhengstrom.org
(source: https://jhengstrom.org/About-JH-Engstrom)
About the Publisher
Éditions de L’oeil is a French publishing house, dealing in all manner of art books.
editionsdeloeil.com
(source: https://www.editionsdeloeil.com/)
