VERY SCARCE OPPORTUNITY to purchase this BRILLIANT FIRST and ONLY MONOGRAPH by one of the best swedish and STILL VERY UNDERRATED photographers ever - BRANDNEW and SIGNED. Signed by Gunnar Smoliansky. Signatures by this artist are scarce. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE. New, mint, unread. Still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil; only opened once for signature. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 OF MY BOOKS IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Steidl, Göttingen. The Hasselblad Center. 2009. First edition, first printing. Clothbound hardcover with a dust jacket. 289 x 289 mm. 256 pages. 230 tritone plates. Photos: Gunnar Smoliansky. Text in English. Wonderful, highly underrated photobook in perfect condition - bodly signed by the artist. "This is the first monograph covering the five decades of Gunnar Smoliansky's photographic career. Through his idiosyncratic style and quiet attention to the details of ordinary life, he has carved a reputation as one of the leading voices in Swedish photography. This book accompanies a major retrospective of Smoliansky's work at the Hasselblad Center in Göteborg. Fantastic book! Signed by the artist! Gunnar Smoliansky was born in 1933 on the island of Gotland, in Sweden. After school and national service, he moved to Sao Paolo where he worked as an assistant to a photographer who specialised in industrial photography. When he returned to Sweden, at the end of the fifties, he started work at Atlas Copco as their inhouse photographer, while studying at Christer Strömholm's photography school in the evenings. He was employed for ten years, and has since worked as a freelance photographer on occasional commissions but primarily on his own work. He has numerous exhibitions and publications to his name, books such as Barn, Slussen and Waldemarsudde." (from the publisher) #ExclusivePhotographersStudio