HOME, by Lars Tunbjörk (SIGNED)

Steidl, 2002, First edition, 106 pp., 11" X 11 1/2", Hardcover 

Fine (SIGNED)

HOME may be a portrait of a uniformed modern residential nightmare, but in its silence, the repressed personality of place humorously yet quietly resonates from the book's spreads. In these manufactured and manicured suburban landscapes, a sense of loss lingers in the atmosphere and although there is no threat, the nightmare of the suburban abyss is unavoidably evident.

"An emptiness permeates our cities, smaller towns, and moves along the roads. It did not use to be there. When it began to emerge, it went undetected for some time, suppressed beneath a kind of dizzy tipsiness that spread across the country and was everywhere, and which perhaps transformed the very fundamentals of that country. That is why I dread those houses, that sit on the outskirts of any medium sized town, and were constructed in a period of weeks early in the decade." — Goran Greider, on Lars Tunbjork's photographs

"Lars Tunbjork returns to the city, the area, the house, and the rooms where he grew up. This homecoming is not unarmed. Nobody could see this reality with the naked eye only. Through the camera, he turns our attention to matters overlooked. To the bypassed. Thus, he watches over a place that he's still belonging to. And the place responds." — Goran Odbratt, from his introduction