Anna. Amerikan mummu. (SPECIAL EDITION with PRINT, SIGNED)

This is one of the 40 copies of the special edition, signed and numbered with a signed and numbered C-print (24 x 30 cms.). Four different images, have been used, each printed ten times for this special edition. First edition with 44 color photos by Nina KORHONEN of her grandmother Anna. Anna left Finland in her forties after having raised her child, to realize her dream : to live ( & work ) in the USA. Every summer she visited her husband and daughter and (later) her grandchildren in Finland. And her husband came over regularly to the States. Some of the photographs he took of his wife are also reproduced in this book. Many years later Nina KORHONEN portrayed her « American grandmother », over several years, showing a remarkable woman and her apartment in Brooklyn (N.Y.) and Anna in Florida. This publication was chosen as the best Swedish photobook in 2004. 

Lit.: Auer, 802 photo books from the M.+ M. Auer collection, 794, Parr/Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol. III, page 263.

• Stockholm: Journal, 2004
• 4to, ( 250 x 310 mm.). 104 pp.
• Blue cloth-covered boards, an image pasted on the front cover. In the original blue cloth-covered slipcase.
• Text in Swedish and English
• First edition