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"Originally published in 1967, ""Poste Restante"" has become one of the most collectible photography books from the mid-twentieth century, ranking alongside the better known publications of Robert Frank and Ed van der Elsken. Stromholm's photographic autobiography details his extensive travels across the globe in a book constructed as an Existentialist diary. Juxtaposing the urbane and the macabre, combining portraiture and street scenes with abstract photographic fragments, the book uses metaphor and visual pun in an unrelenting stream of consciousness. In its sequence and design, it is a book which pre-figures much of contemporary photographic publishing and art practice."

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Christer Stromholm, born 1918 in Stockholm, studied painting in Dresden and Stockholm, before discovering photography whilst studying in Paris after the war. He joined Otto Steinert's Fotoform group and whilst working and travelling through France, Spain, Japan, India, America and Africa, he developed his own brand of 'subjective photography'. During this time he began teaching and became the father figure to major Swedish photographers of the late twentieth century. He was appointed Professor of Photography in 1993 and was awarded the Hasselblad Award in 1997. He died on January 11, 2002.

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