The first monograph devoted to Gunnar Smoliansky’s photography, encompassing more than five decades of work. The book unfolds from his singular, idiosyncratic vision and his quiet, patient attention to the minor gestures and overlooked details of everyday life – an attentiveness that has secured his place as one of the most quietly authoritative voices in contemporary Swedish photography. Its title echoes Smoliansky’s own way of working: photographs made slowly, one by one. As the photo historian Gerry Badger observes in one of the book’s essays, Smoliansky does not make art; he responds to life.

Published by Steidl, Göttingen, 2008
332 pages, 29×29 cm
285 black and white duplex illustrations
ISBN: 978 3 86521 615 1
Hardcover, as well as special edition with tipped-in image and limited edition with print in a clamshell box