Sune Jonsson

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Olov Sune Jonsson (born December 20, 1930 in Nyåker , Nordmaling municipality , † January 30, 2009 ) was a Swedish documentary photographer , filmmaker and author .

Life

After studying folklore and literature in Stockholm and Uppsala , Jonsson returned to northern Sweden in the early 1960s. His debut book Byn med det blå huset (The village with the blue house) was first published in 1959 and describes the inhabitants of his birthplace Nyåker. As in his second photo book, Timotejvägen , the relationship between text and image plays an important role.

Between 1961 and 1995 Jonsson worked as a photographer and field ethnologist for the Västerbotten Museum in Umeå and devoted himself to long-term cultural photography work, especially in the province of Västerbotten. Thematically, the photographer dealt with Swedish smallholders, the man-made cultural landscape and church assemblies in northern Sweden. His pictorial work was inspired by internationally known photographers such as August Sander , Walker Evans , Dorothea Lange , Wayne Miller and Edward Steichen's concept for The Family of Man exhibition from 1955. Ivar Lo-Johansson and his work Den sociala were photobildboken in Sweden a great role model.

In addition to his photographic work, Jonsson was also a documentary filmmaker and worked in cooperation with the Västerbotten Museum and Swedish Television on films about small farms, mountain farmers and fishermen in sparsely populated northern Sweden. In addition, two novels ( Brobyggarna and Stationskarl Albin E. Anderssons minnen ) as well as a collection of short stories ( Hundhålet ) belong to his oeuvre.

Jonsson received an honorary doctorate from Umeå University in 2001 . In 1993 he received the internationally acclaimed Hasselblad Prize in Gothenburg . At the photo exhibition Sune Jonsson meets Walker Evans , which opened in Stockholm in May 2006 , Jonsson's photographs were juxtaposed with classic American documentary photography by the Farm Security Administration .

In autumn 2006, some photographs from his debut book Byn med det blå huset were shown in the photo exhibition In the Face of History - European Photographers in the 20th Century at the Barbican Art Gallery in London .

Sune Jonsson last lived in Umeå with his wife Stina.

Publications

  • Byn med det blå huset (1959).
  • Timotejvägen (1961).
  • Hundhålet (1962).
  • Pictures of Nådens barn (1963).
  • Pictures från den stora flyttningen (1964).
  • Pictures of the Congo (1965).
  • Sammankomst i elden (1966).
  • Pictures från bondens år (1967).
  • Pictures from Bornholm (1967).
  • Prague August 1968 (1968).
  • Brobyggarna (1969).
  • Minnesbok över den svenske bonden (1971).
  • Station Karl Albin E. Anderssons minnen (1974).
  • Jordabok (1967).
  • Örtabok (1979).
  • Dagar vid havet (1981).
  • Blombok (1983).
  • Hemmavid (1986).
  • Tiden viskar - en småbrukarfamilj 1960–1990 (1991).
  • Sune Jonsson - Photographs by the recipient of the Hasselblad Prize (1993).
  • Jordgubbar med mjölk (1994).
  • Husen vid Himlastigen (1998).
  • Album - photographer från fem decennier (2000).
  • Tides blir ett förunderligt ting. Photographier avhabenkor och landskap (2007).

literature

  • Åtta texter om Sune Jonsson (Västerbotten 4/2000). Västerbottens museum, Umeå 2000.
  • Kate Bush, Mark Sladen: In the Face of History. European Photographers in the 20th Century . Barbican Center, Black Dog Publishing, London 2006.
  • Alfried Wieczorek, Claude W. Sui (Hrsg.): World stars of photography. The winners of the Hasselblad Foundation. Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-927774-23-0 , pp. 116–123.

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supporting documents

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personal data
SURNAME Jonsson, Sune
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jonsson, Olov Sune
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish documentary photographer, documentary filmmaker and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Nyåker , Nordmaling (municipality)
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2009