About The Book
Loose Joints is honoured to announce the posthumous re-publication of Office by legendary Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk, alongside the release of LA Office – an unpublished series completed shortly before his passing. Tunbjörk’s iconic series from the 2000s delves into the bureaucracy, disorder, and mundanity of office culture with masochistic delight, capturing the soul-sapping environments of corporate spaces with unparalleled insight.
Over five years, Tunbjörk explored corporate spaces across Stockholm, New York, and Tokyo, photographing ‘like an alien’ in the soulless, banal uniformity of these workplaces. This two-volume series is redesigned by Tunbjörk’s close collaborator, graphic designer and art director Greger Ulf Nilsson. Publisher’s Info
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About The Artist
Lars Tunbjörk (1956–2015) was a celebrated Swedish photographer born in Borås, Sweden. Tunbjörk started as a prominent press photographer in Stockholm, working for The New York Times, Liberation, GEO, Times and he was a member of Galerie and Agence VU’. Tunbjörk published about a dozen books, with notable works including Office (Journal/Max Strom, 2001), Home (Steidl, 2002), and Vinter (Steidl, 2007).
His photographs are held in prestigious collections at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Throughout his career, Tunbjörk received numerous accolades, including Photographer of the Year by Sweden’s Pressfotografernas Klubb, First Prize at the World Press Photo, and the 2008 Scanpix Award.
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Specifics
Office / LA Office by Lars Tunbjörk is published by Loose Joints. Office: Landscape debsossed hardcover with tip-on, 120pp, 295 x 282 mm. LA Office: Stapled debossed brochure with cloth cover, 32pp, 182 x 282 mm. Housed in a debossed slipcase. Design: Greger Ulf Nilson. Text: David Graeber. Link.
