Urs Stahel

»En massiv manifestation av ett konsekvent konstnärskap.« SVD Anders Petersen är en av Europas mest betydelsefulla dokumentärfotografer. Hans svartvita bilder, ofta hämtade från samhällets utkanter, visar alla på en kännetecknande värme och respekt. Det trettiotalet böckerna har blivit en viktig del av den fotografiska historien. Den här boken är den i särklass största monografin över Anders Petersen och hans konstnärskap. Verket omfattar drygt 250 av hans främsta bilder, hämtade från samtliga hittillsvarande projekt, från debutboken Gröna Lund via Cafe Lehmitz till The City Diaries. Urs Stahel, curator och konstkritiker, samt chef för Fotomuseum Winterthur i Zurich, har skrivit en essä där han tolkar Petersens konstnärskap i ett internationellt perspektiv. Hasse Persson, fotograf, skribent och tidigare chef för Hasselblad Center, har skrivit en kort biografi över Petersens liv, arbetssätt och tänkande, som ger en översiktlig och personlig ingång till hans skapande. Boken Anders Petersen finns i två språkutgåvor (svensk och engelsk).

A photobook archive of archives, from rarely seen collections throughout IndiaThe archive has long been an obsession for Dayanita Singh (born 1961)--both literal archives, treasuries of objects chosen with care and preserved against time, and the photobook as a moveable archive which the viewer can revisit and display at will. In Pothi Khana (Hindi for "archive room"), Singh presents photographs of India's seemingly endless private and public archives: shelf after shelf of bundles wrapped and knotted in pieces of cloth once colorful but now almost white with age. The documents within these bundles remain known only to the archivists who are curiously absent in Singh's images, their presence implied from the spaces they normally inhabit: chairs, desks, doorways, halls. Originally exhibited in 2018 at the 57th Carnegie International as a group of modular, pillarlike wooden structures whose photographs could be endlessly resequenced, Singh now transforms the mobile sensibility of Pothi Khana into this volume, which she sees as a compendium to 2013's File Room.

Over the past dozen years, Toronto-based artist Scott McFarland (born 1975) has become one of the most prominent artists working with photography. His subtle manipulations of the photograph and use of tableau scale offer the viewer a new perspective on the photograph as a single moment in time. McFarland has expanded the subjects of his works in recent years from the large-scale tableaux gardens in Vancouver, for which he is perhaps best known, to winter scenes, cottage country outside the city and the urban street. Scott McFarland: Snow, Shacks, Streets, Shrubs documents the artist's more recent work, much of which is previously unseen.

While working on his book, "The Circle," in 2005, Jan Jedli cka (born 1944) came across a short coastal strip near Grosseto, where the atmospheric play of light inspired him to return frequently between 2008 and 2015. His black-and-white images were taken at a 600-feet range, suggesting that we can find spectacular variety in our immediate environments.