{"id":19882,"date":"2021-05-04T13:31:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T11:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/?page_id=19882"},"modified":"2022-10-31T15:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:05:33","slug":"john-alinder-portraits-1910-32","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.landskronafoto.org\/en\/john-alinder-portraits-1910-32\/","title":{"rendered":"19.6-29.8.21 JOHN ALINDER PORTRAITS 1910-32"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Location<\/strong><\/strong>: Landskrona Foto, Tyghuset  Opening hours<\/strong>: <\/strong>Thursday-Sunday 12-17<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people depicted in John Alinder\u2019s portraits are often looking straight into the camera. As if they can see us. As if their gaze can travel the hundred years or so that lie between their time and ours. As if they were saying, \u201cYou are alive now, but we were once alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photographer John Alinder was born in S\u00e4vasta in Altuna parish on 22 December 1878. He was a farmer\u2019s son who remained true to the village as long as he lived, but in his behaviour he was a rebel. He was expected to take over his parents\u2019 farm but refused. That was no small matter at the time. Instead, Alinder devoted himself to odd jobs, especially photography. For over thirty years he depicted the locality and the people who lived there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And look at the way he did it, wayward, warm, alive. The people he portrayed have names like Agnes, Lily or Jarl, and they come from places like Berga, M\u00e4lby and Flosta. They are children placed on chairs, people perched in trees, they are workers, confirmation candidates and old ladies; often depicted against a background of foliage and sprawling greenery penetrated by sunlight. Alinder\u2019s portrait art allows for the magic of chance, both liberating and defining the subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever since the staff of Landskrona Foto first saw Alinder\u2019s pictures, they have been working for a solo exhibition of these, and this summer it will finally happen. From 19 June you can meet people from another time, in Landskrona, via Alinder\u2019s gaze and his camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The John Alinder exhibition is produced in collaboration with Upplandsmuseet.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n