CHRISTER STRÖMHOLM: LES AMIES DE PLACE BLANCHE

Monograph - reedited from the original edition

published in 1983 by ETC Sweden

For Les amies de Place Blanche, it is both a new look on the

photographs of Christer Strömholm in collaboration with

his son Joakim and the luck to get in 2011 the testimo-

nies of Nana and Jacky, the two main transsexual friends

photographed in Paris in the late 50’s. It is also relevant to have

today in France the possibility to tell and show this particular

question of body and identity - an act unthinkable in France at

the time of the first edition in 1983.

Christer Strömholm’ work has long surprised as it seemed difficult to accept that a photographer could immerse himself taking as much advantage of the visual and sensitive context he was living with. From 1958 he concentrated his efforts and his work on transsexuals of Place Blanche in Paris. It is this series of photographs that made him famous to a large audience outside his natal country. Les amies de Place Blanche returns to the book published in 1983 around the marginals of Paris nightlife from 50s and 60s : dark vision, poetry, extistentialism and transsexuality with Christer. Strömholm, the father of modern Swedish Photography

Format 203 x 290 / 212 pages

142 black and white photographs and unpublished

documents

English & French

Editors Joakim Strömholm and Vincent Marcilhacy

Foreword by Christian Caujolle

Texts by Christer Strömholm, Helene Hazera (journalist

and producer for France Culture, France) and Johan

Ehrenberg (editor of the original edition)

Graphic design by Magali Peretti