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"Photobook collectors don't really like loose sheets, but for this artist book they should 'jump over their shadow'. The project has a very interesting starting point (see below, text printed in the envelope) and is executed with quality. The landscape photographs and the photographs have a special attraction." (© Richard G. SPORLEDER)
"'Characters of Jante' is inspired by the book 'En flyktning krysser sitt spor' (The fugitive crosses his tracks).
In this project we meet the characters living in the fictional town Jante, surrounded by the silence of desolate landscape. (...) The Law of Jante describes the tyranny of the mediocre and requires that those who are above the average have to pay for being so.
The renowned Norwegian social anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen puts it this way: 'It expresses, in other words, an ideology of equality which depreciates the original and the unusual. It is widely held that the Law of Jante is a deeply embedded aspect of Norwegian culture, and that it discourages brilliance and high achievements." (©: SPBH)
"Photobook collectors don't really like loose sheets, but for this artist book they should 'jump over their shadow'. The project has a very interesting starting point (see below, text printed in the envelope) and is executed with quality. The landscape photographs and the photographs have a special attraction." (© Richard G. SPORLEDER)
"'Characters of Jante' is inspired by the book 'En flyktning krysser sitt spor' (The fugitive crosses his tracks).
In this project we meet the characters living in the fictional town Jante, surrounded by the silence of desolate landscape. (...) The Law of Jante describes the tyranny of the mediocre and requires that those who are above the average have to pay for being so.
The renowned Norwegian social anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen puts it this way: 'It expresses, in other words, an ideology of equality which depreciates the original and the unusual. It is widely held that the Law of Jante is a deeply embedded aspect of Norwegian culture, and that it discourages brilliance and high achievements." (©: SPBH)
- Book design
- Barbara HENNEQUIN
- Format
- 4 pp. fold-around with a 36 pp. unbound book inside, loose sheets, folded into one section, 25 x 32 cm. (photo sheets: 47 x 32 cm.), Ltd. to 250 signed & numb. copies