Blue Shots
Erik Lindahl
Journal
English
Text by L-P Anderson, Nils Hanson and Tommy Löfgren
Softcover
148 pages
239 x 175 mm
2008
ISBN 9789197696647
Swedish photographer Erik Lindahl has a singular passion – the blues. Over the past 25 years he’s repeatedly crossed the Atlantic for pilgrimages to the home of the blues, such as Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Chicago and L.A.. The photographs include legendary performers including Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Buddy Guy share these pages with lesser known but colorful figures including Junior Kimbrough, James “Tail Dragger” Jones and T-Model Ford. 146 pages of beautiful black & white photographs. Foreword by Nick Tosches.
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About the Artist
Erik Lindahl was born in 1952 and lives in Sweden’s second-largest city, Gothenburg. He is a photographer and has focused on blues musicians and their environments since the early 1970s. Erik has documented the blues in Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, St. Louis, Memphis, and Los Angeles, as well as clubs on Chicago’s West Side and South Side. Erik likes the atmosphere of black and white to catch the musicians and also the clubs where they perform and their patrons. The world’s oldest blues magazine, Jefferson (founded in 1968), has featured Lindahl’s photos through the years. In 2008 Lindahl published the critically acclaimed photography book Blue Shots. It consists of 100 pictures of blues musicians, captured both at work onstage and in their everyday lives with friends and at home with their families. The book is more than just portraits of artists; it also captures who they are.
https://blues.org/
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About the Publisher
Journal was founded by Gösta Flemming in 1991 with an aim to publish photo books. Based in Sweden.
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