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This reader is a collection of writings in Swedish by Hans Hedberg (1954?2016), a photographer, teacher, curator and mentor who played a pivotal part in the establishment of the postmodern perspective in photography in Sweden in the 1990s, as well as the development of artistic research practices. He worked at both Konstfack and Valand Academy and wrote a vast number of texts as critic, curator and lecturer. This is collection spans over twenty-five years of texts that were published in newspapers and journals, or in exhibition contexts.
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The photobook visually and materially contextualizes arrangements of photographs and brings them into a sensually tangible form. The book format, the materiality of the paper, and the type of binding have just as much of an effect on the viewer as the selection of images, their positioning in the layout, typography, and the texts. The artist and theorist Bettina Lockemann provides an approach to the medium from a research perspective: considering the photobook as an independent subject of art theories, her phenomenological discussion complements methodological lines of thought. An important contribution to the photobook as an independent field of research, Lockemann elaborates precise terms ...
The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts is a major collection of new writings on research in the creative and performing arts by leading authorities from around the world. It provides theoretical and practical approaches to identifying, structuring and resolving some of the key issues in the debate about the nature of research in the arts which have surfaced during the establishment of this subject over the last decade. Contributions are located in the contemporary intellectual environment of research in the arts, and more widely in the universities, in the strategic and political environment of national research funding, and in the international environment of trans-national coopera...
Captivated by a memorable childhood voyage from Sweden to Poland, a shy and awkward young boy leaves school at sixteen determined to make a career in shipping...Fired from the family firm by a father resentful of his success, Arne Larsson built a shipbroking empire from a small loan, a strong liver, considerable good luck and that most precious commodity -- a world-wide network of friends. Six decades riding the waves of both failure and triumph leaves his passion for shipping undiminished and his cable address 'FRIENDSHIP' more appropriate than ever...