B-B-B-Books was founded in Stockholm, August 2011, and is committed to work with the interplay of all various aspects of book production. Each new project aims to foster the development of how photography, text and production can converge.
Klara Källströms, ‘Blackdrop Island’
In Klara Källströms’ Blackdrop Island, she plays with the idiom “to dig where you stand”. What happens if you do that? - You come to the other side of the planet. The photographs were taken during a stay in Tokyo in 2008 and a revisit in 2010. Documenting things at night, when darkness creates black backdrops and only allows us see a bit of the scenery, is something that occupies Klaras’ interest. It becomes “partly a fictional documentation”, she says. Viktor Johansson has written a poetic suite accompanying the images and the result is shown in the book as two parallel worlds, encapsulated in double-folded sheets. Blackdrop Island is released at the opening of Klara Källströms’ solo show with the same title at Fotografiska, the Swedish Museum of Photography, in September 2011.
‘Blackdrop Island’ / Photographs by Klara Källström / Poems by Viktor Johansson / Design by 1:2:3 and Marika Vaccino Andersson / Edited by KK+TF
160 pages with 40 color plates / 23.5 x 29.5 cm / 9.4 x 11.8 in
Full color offset / Perfect bound-Japanese binding / Hard cover
Edition: 1000 / ISBN: 978-91-979697-1-0
Publication date: September 2011 / B-B-B-Books