Sune Jonsson (FIRST BOOK) - Byn med det bla huset ("The village of the blue house") - 1959

TRUE ORIGINAL, VERY SCARCE FIRST PRINTING (there were later printings also) of this SUPER BEAUTIFUL BOOK by Swedish photographer and writer (Olov) Sune Jonsson (1930-2009),
recipient of the Hasselblad Award in 1993.

Martin Parr, The Photobook vol 1, page 214/215.

TRUE FIRST, VERY SCARCE HARDCOVER EDITION (there was a paperback edition also same time).
With dustjacket as professional reprint, not as cheap photocopy.

The first book by Sune Jonsson is such an intimate, touching work - in breath-taking printing.
It contains personal portraits of people in Djupsjönäs and his home village of Nyåker.
MY HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION.

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Nordisk Rotogravure, Stockholm. 1959. First edition, first printing.

Original hardback with decorated paper, black cloth spine and jacket (as reprint). 152 x 211 mm. 138 pages. Photos: Sune Jonsson. Text: Sune Jonsson. Text in Swedish.

Condition:
Book inside and outside excellent, very fresh and absolutely flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket in perfect condition. Overall very fine condition.

Very important Swedish photobook by Sune Jonsson - here in the true first printing in hardcover.

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"Sune Jonsson was born in Nyåker near Nordmaling in the province of Västerbotten, Sweden. After studying folklore and literature in Stockholm and Uppsala, Jonsson returned to northern Sweden in the early 1960s. His first book, Byn med det blå huset (The Village with the Blue House), was published in 1959 and contains personal portraits of people in Djupsjönäs and his home village of Nyåker. As in his second photo book, Timotejvägen, the relationship between text and image plays an important role.
Between 1961 and 1995, Jonsson was employed as a photographer at the Museum of Västerbotten in Umeå, where he devoted himself to long-term cultural photographic work, mainly in the province of Västerbotten. Thematically, his photography focussed on the rural population, farmers, the man-made landscape and religious gatherings. Jonsson's artistic work was inspired by photographers such as August Sander, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Wayne Miller and Edward Steichen, especially in the 1955 photo exhibition The Family of Man. The Swedish writer Ivar Lo-Johansson and his social work Den sociala fotobildboken were an important role model.
In addition to his photographic work, Jonsson was also a skilful documentary filmmaker and, in collaboration with the Museum of Västerbotten and Swedish television, produced documentary films about small farms, mining and fishing in sparsely populated northern Sweden."
(Wikipedia)