Loops by Anders Edström

A collection of works by Swedish photographer and filmmaker Anders Edström.

From cover to cover, the book tells a chronological story. He photographs during walks, drives and trips, always looking around and stopping when something catches his eye, and when the light and the scene come together. He does not look for spectacular or unusual scenes, but rather for moments when the scene and the light become one, as if guided by a mysterious force. His images may seem ordinary, but each one shows the connections between light, time and energy. In the book, puddles of reflective pigments appear between these images. He created them at home to use light reflections in his work, and each one is a study in "light, form and texture," to borrow the words of art historian Ernst Gombrich in an essay on 15th-century painting in the Alps. Edström first made his name in the fashion world, where he was discovered by Martin Margiela, who rebelled against fashion conventions by simply covering ordinary objects like boots, jeans, and backpacks in white paint. Like Margiela, Edström eschews the extraordinary, the surprising, and the conventional, instead leaning towards raw naturalism and expressing an alternative way of looking at the world through his synesthetic photography.

(Excerpt from distributor's commentary)

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Title: Loops
Artist: Anders Edström
ANTENNE PUBLISHING, 2019
Softcover, 210 x 280 mm
136 pages
¥2,800 + tax