Jens Olof Lasthein - Moments in Between - 2000

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Black paper-covered boards with title stamped in white on cover and spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and text (in Englis and Swedish) by Jens Olof Lasthein. Text (in English and Swedish) by Jesper Lindau. Includes a list of plates with thumbnail illustrations. Designed by Patric Leo. Unpaginated (144 pp.), with 55 full-bleed, four-color plates. 8 x 10 inches. [Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).] From Parr and Badger: "Moments in Between is an impressive example of the new, artistically aware photojournalism. It deals with the murderous break-up of Yugoslavia following the erosion of the communist bloc...Lasthein, typically, does not look at these vicious conflicts directly, but like a nineteenth-century photographer he documents the landscape of war rather than the war itself. In a series of luscious, even lyrical landscapes taken in Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Macedonia, he documents an urban topography and a social landscape blighted by war."