Christer Strömholm Livres

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. This photographic autobiography details Stràmholm's 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 that prefigures much of contemporary photographic publishing and art practice.

'Les Amies de Place Blanche' focuses on the transsexual community living around the Place Blanche district of Paris in the late 1950s and early 1960s.