Lars Tunbjörk documented the rise of alienating online work. His images should remind us that it didn’t have to be this way.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-frightening-familiarity-of-late-nineties-office-photos
Lars Tunbjörk documented the rise of alienating online work. His images should remind us that it didn’t have to be this way.
When Lars Tunbjork accepted an assignment to create his own portrait of winter in Sweden, he attempted to confront the emotional darkness he associated with it.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/lens/dreamlike-photos-of-swedens-dark-winter.html
When Lars Tunbjork accepted an assignment to create his own portrait of winter in Sweden, he attempted to confront the emotional darkness he associated with it.
The work of true artists resembles the artists themselves—sometimes to the very end. This is what we’re telling ourselves once again today upon hearing the news of the premature death of Lars Tunjbjörk at the age of 59.
His pictures are interrogations more than reports that he develops with discreet humor
The Cartoon Issue, out this week, had me thinking of photography with a funny side. The Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk, known for his deadpan …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/10/lars-tunbjrk.html
The Cartoon Issue, out this week, had me thinking of photography with a funny side. The Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk, known for his deadpan portraits of office spaces and suburban lifestyles, came to mind
an extract from a conversation between the photographers Martina Hoogland Ivanow and Lars Tunbjörk as printed in the first issue of IMAG
Link: First Issue of IMAG Photographers talk | La Lettre de la Photographie
Getting permission to shoot inside corporate headquarters did indeed take some convincing. In 1994, with the help of contacts from the Times, Tunbjörk got permission to begin shooting. Little did he know his office odyssey would span five years and three continents, leading him from Sweden to America to Japan , with stops at a car company in Tokyo, a telecommunications firm in Stockholm , a bank in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “Lars Tunbjörk: Alien at the Office (2004)”