Fotoböcker

This book is the result of one man's pure fascination for art, urban environments and beauty in the widest sense of the word. In shades of black, blue and brown, and in the spirit of Brassai and Doisneau, he takes us on a photographic tour, an imaginative play of light and shadows, to some of the cities that he has come to love as a world traveler -- Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin, Venice and Tokyo, to mention just a few.

Christer Lindberg, born 1956, is Professor of Social Anthropology at Lund University, Sweden,
and Associate Professor of the History of Religion at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. He is
also a skilled photographer whose work has been exhibited in museums and galleries. He has
published three photographic books previously: Paris Serenade (2009), Fascination (2013),
and The Green Heart – Impressions from the Lund University Botanical Garden (2012), the
latter in collaboration with his friend and colleague, Thomas Malm.
Thomas Malm, born 1960, is a biologist and anthropologist, and Professor of Human Ecology
at Lund University, Sweden. He has travelled widely in Oceania – his ‘Sea of Shells’ – since
1983. It was during fieldwork there that he amassed the bulk of shells shown in this book.
His award-winning dissertation, Shell Age Economics – Marine Gathering in the Kingdom of
Tonga, Polynesia (1999), was the first monograph about the cultural significance of marine
invertebrates in the Pacific islands.

A photographic play in five acts based on Poe's The Raven and Lou Reed's lyric. Raven is the Trickster, the one who became and remained everything to every man - god, animal, human being, buffoon, he was before good and evil, denier, affirmer, destroyer and creator.

Med Parisiska ögonblick samlar de Malmöbaserade fotograferna Möller och Lindberg, båda med Christer i förnamn, sina visuella intryck av den pulserande storstaden Paris. Det är en kärleksförklaring som odlats under lång tid och många resor – på var sitt håll och aldrig tillsammans, någon gång i arbetet men för det mesta som en avkopplande semester. Staden med sina caféer och restauranger, historiska platser, avenyer, gränder och passager, myllrande folkliv och kyssande par tycks aldrig upphöra att fascinera den tillfällige besökaren. Dessutom vet alla fotografer att ljuset är som bäst i Paris. Åtminstone om vi får tro på våra egna myter och drömmar med distans i både tid och rum.