Elämää Kuolemassa = Livet i Döden = Life in Death : Musta taide 3/2005
44: Musta taide, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. "Death is a village in Finland. I saw it for the first time during a working trip through the back window of the taxi I was in. As the taxi driver drove into the courtyard of a small shop and exclaimed, 'Welcome to Death!' I thought to myself: only in Finland can a village be called Death (in Finnish Kuolema). For me, it's this relationship to death that separates the Swedes from the Finns. In Finland, you are born, then comes a long period of suffering, and then you die. In Sweden, you are born, everything is Great! and then you disappear. Like to Spain. I am born in Sweden. When I found Kuolema, I had lived in Finland for seven years. As we stood there on that courtyard, the title Life in Death came instantly to me, and I decided then and there that I would work on Life in Death for a year. This was the summer of 2002. Jorma the cab driver told me about the twin sisters who worked in the store but I wasn't paying attention. Maybe the sisters would be a part of my project, maybe not. I had decided that even if I ended up taking pictures of walls and grass, I would photograph Life in Death. And that was that."
Text in English, Swedish and Finnish. 75 pp. Light wear on the covers. Near Fine. Item #1105
ISBN: 9529851677
Price: $40.00