The Helsinki School: The Nature of Being, Vol. 6

The Helsinki School: The Nature of Being, Vol. 6

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2019.
Ed. Timothy Persons, Asia Zak Persons, text(s) by Grey Crawford, Antje-Britt Mählmann, Timothy Persons, Marja Sakari, graphic design by Full Metal Jacket.
Format: 24 x 29 cm
Language: English
ISBN 978-3-7757-4699-1

Persons Projects is happy to present the new volume of The Helsinki School: The Nature of Being, Vol. 6. The publication has been launched Saturday 7 November during Paris Photo Fair 2019.
It concentrates on bringing together the various approaches used by the School’s representatives to conceptualize nature visibly. The stated goal is not to limit oneself to purely physical depictions of animals, plants, and landscapes. Nature ought to be expressed through a di¤erent type of unit and with a new way of gauging time. Days, months, and seasons become the points of crystallization for time. Thus, the photographs reflect a Nordic sense about feelings of loneliness, jealousy, or desire. The works provide photographic insight into the complex horizon of emotions that characterize our individual views of nature. They do not portray landscape as such, but the world in which we live.
Since the 1990s the name Helsinki School has been used to describe a group of fine art photographers who studied, taught, or graduated from the Aalto University’s School of Art, Design and Architecture. The term unites a consistent conceptual approach.

The Helsinki School: From the Past to the Future

Published by: Hatje Cantz, 2014
Format: 29.50 x 24.50 cm, hardcover
Pages: ca. 256 pages, ca. 180 illustrations
Texts: Holger Broeker, Alistair Hicks,Erika Hoffman-Koenige,
Andréa Holzherr,Timothy Persons, Lyle Rexer, Pari Stave,
Christoph Tannert, Jyrki Parantainen
Language: English
Graphic design by: Hannes Aechter
ISBN 978-3-7757-3901-6
Hatje Cantz

I find it amazing that after twenty years of existence, the Helsinki School cannot be defined by any one fixed point of view. Conceptually there is a red thread connecting one generation to another in the way they perceive and present their ideas but not necessarily in how they apply them.

– Timothy Persons (introduction)

The Helsinki School: From the Past to the Future
Jorma Puranen, varjoja ja heijastuksia = shadows and reflections

Jorma Puranen, varjoja ja heijastuksia = shadows and reflections

Published: Sinebrychoff Art Museum, 2011
Format: hardcover, bound
Pages: 78 pages
Artist: Jorma Puranen
Language: Finnish, English
ISBN: 978951533383-4

Daegu Photo Biennale 2010: Helsinki School

Published by: Daegu Photo Biennale 2010
Format: Softcover
Text: Walter Bergmoseer,  Timothy Persons
Artist: Joonas Ahlava, Joakim Eskildsen, Ilkka Halso, Tiina Itkonen, Ulla Jokisalo, Aino Kannisto, Hannu Karjalainen, Kalle Kataila, Pertti Kekarainen, Ola Kolehmainen, Janne Lehtinen, Jouko Lehtola, Niko Luoma, Anni Leppälä, Noomi Ljungdell, Susanna Majuri, Nelli Palomäki, Jyrki Parantainen, Riitta Päiväläinen, Jorma Puranen, Heli Rekula, Mikko Sinervo, Niina Vatanen, Saana Wang.
Exhibition catalogue
Daegu Photo Biennale 2010: Helsinki School
Next Level Helsinki Issue

Next Level Helsinki Issue

Published by: Next Level projects Ltd, 2010
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Jorma Puranen, Niko Luoma, Santeri Tuori,
Elina Brotherus, Ola Kolehmainen, Hannu Karjalainen,
Ulla Jokisalo, Jyrki Parantainen, Pertti Kekarainen,
Milja Laurila, Anni Leppälä, Susanna Majuri
Language: English
ISSN 1476-4369

In Natura: A Finnish Trilogy

Published by: Photology, 2009
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 80 Pages
Artist: Ilkka Halso, Janne Lehtinen, Jorma Puranen
Language: Italian
ISBN-13: 978-8888359403
ISBN-10: 8888359400
In Natura: A Finnish Trilogy
Jorma PuranenIcy Prospects

Jorma Puranen
Icy Prospects

Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2009
Format: 30.90 x 27.60 cm, hardcover
Pages: 120 pages, 77 illustrations, 69 in color
Texts: Jorma Puranen, Liz Wells
Artist: Jorma Puranen
Language: English
Design by: Jorma Hinkka
ISBN 978-3-7757-2472-2
Hatje Cantz

"In Icy Prospects I have expressly reflected on the nature of the painterly, the sublime, and the mysterious.” Jorma Puranen

His latest series, Icy Prospects, was inspired by the ways the great explorers as well as today’s tourists to the North Pole are fascinated by the arctic landscape. Puranen painted a board with black, high-gloss acrylic and then took long exposures of the icy landscapes mirrored in this wooden surface. The results are extremely painterly, highly aesthetic, fragmented impressions of nature in which the ground, the brushstroke, and the reflection are inseparably superimposed. In this way, the photographer creates a relationship between the philosophical concept of the "sublime terror” of the forces of nature and his own experience of life in these regions, typifying the north as a projection surface for fantasies and the imagination.

The Helsinki School New Photography by TaiK

Published by: Hatje Cantz in 2007.
Format: 
29,50 x 24,50 cm hardcover
Pages: 
232 pages, 187 color illustrations
Edited:
University of Art and Design, Helsinki (TaiK)
Texts:
Andrea Holzherr, Timothy Persons
Artists:
Joonas Ahlava, Joakim Eskildsen, Miklos Gaál, Veli Granö, Ilkka Halso, Nanna Hänninen, Maarit Hohteri, Tiina Itkonen, Ulla Jokisalo, Jan Kaila, Ari Kakkinen, Aino Kannisto, Sanna Kannisto, Sandra Kantanen, Pertti Kekarainen, Ola Kolehmainen, Milja Laurila, Janne Lehtinen, Ville Lenkkeri, Anni Leppälä, Noomi Ljungdell, Niko Luoma, Susanna Majuri, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Jyrki Parantainen, Jorma Puranen, Riitta Päiväläinen, Heli Rekula, Nanna Saarhelo, Pentti Sammallahti, Jari Silomäki, Mikko Sinervo, Marjukka Vainio, Ea Vasko, Pernilla Zetterman
Designed by:
Margarethe Hausstätter, Claudia Stein
Language:
English
ISBN 978-3-7757-1888-2
http://www.hatjecantz.de/the-helsinki-school-1825-1.html

Based on the success of volume one, the latest installment of The Helsinki School represents one of the most unique approaches to the state of conceptual photography today. Volume two is dedicated to sustaining the dialogue between one generation and another who have either taught, graduated, or attended the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. It will accompany an exhibition with venues all over the world. This unique, richly illustrated publication, based on a concept by Timothy Persons and Jorma Puranen also looks ahead to the emerging next generation.

The Helsinki School New Photography by TaiK
Jorma PuranenIcy Prospects

Jorma Puranen
Icy Prospects

Published by: Gallery Anhava, 2006
Format: Softcover
Pages: 43 Pages
Text: Marjatta Levanto
Artist: Jorma Puranen
Language: English /Swedish
Exhibition catalogue

Breaking the Ice
Contemporary Art from Finland

Published by: Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2006
Format: Softcover
Pages: 112 Pages
Artists: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Veli Granö, Tommi Grönlund/
Petteri Nisunen, Marja Kanervo, Tea Mäkipää, Esko Männikkö,
Jaakko Niemelä, Pertti Kekarainen, Jorma Puranen,
Seppo Renvall, Charles Sandison
Language: English / German
Exhibition catalogue
ISBN 3-929790-74-2
Breaking the IceContemporary Art from Finland
LandscapePhotographs of Time and Place

Landscape
Photographs of Time and Place

Published by: the National Geographic Society, 2003
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 167 Pages
Text: Ferdinand Protzman
Artists: Ola Kolehmainen, Jorma Puranen, Ilkka Halso,
Riitta Päiväläinen, Arno Minkkinen, Jari Silomäki
Language: English
ISBN 0-7922-6166-6

Imaginary Homecoming

Published by: Pohjoinen Publications, 1999
Format: Hardcover
Artist: Jorma Puranen
Language: English / Finnish
ISBN 9517493274

A book by Jorma Puranen, inspired by and drawing on an archive of late 19th-century portraits of the Sami people of Lapland at the Musee de l’Homme in Paris. Puranen traveled to the original source of the images in Northern Norway and reinserted his rephotographed images of the portraits in the Northern landscape, creating a sort of dialogue between past and present, and both a tapestry and continuum of existence, with portraits standing in for present-day Sami and appearing on trees, rocks, water, snow. Like much of contemporary Finnish photography that is conceptual, the body of work is extremely layered and resonant, both intellectually rigorous and emotional.

Imaginary Homecoming
Dokumentti11 valokuvaajaa

Dokumentti
11 valokuvaajaa

Published by: Musta Taide, 3/1998
Format: Softcover
Pages: 128 Pages
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Ulla Jokisalo, Timo Kelaranta,
Jouko Lehtola, Jorma Puranen
Language: Finnish
ISSN 0788-2467
ISBN 952-9851-22-7

Rumpu ja Kamera
The Drum and the Camera

Published by: Musta Taide, 2/1997
Format: Softcover
Pages: 100 Pages
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Ilkka Halso, Tiina Itkonen, Ulla Jokisalo, Timo Kelaranta,
Jyrki Parantainen, Jorma Puranen, Ari Saarto
Language: Finnish
Exhibition catalogue
ISSN 0788-2467
ISBN 952-9851-14-6
Rumpu ja KameraThe Drum and the Camera
Suomalainen valokuva 1996-1997Finnish Photography 1996-1997

Suomalainen valokuva 1996-1997
Finnish Photography 1996-1997

Published by: Musta Taide, 1997
Format: Softcover
Pages: 99 Pages
Artists from the Helsinki School:
Tiina Itkonen, Ola Kolehmainen,
Jouko Lehtola, Juha Nenonen, Jorma Puranen
Musta taide 1/1997
Language: Finnish
ISSN 0788-2467
ISBN 952-9851-12-x

Alfa & Omega

Published by: Opus 12, 1989
Format: Softcover
Artist: Jorma Puranen
Language: Finnish / English
ISBN 952-90-1408-2
Alfa & Omega