Boundary Crossings
Temporal Dialogues in Finnish Landscape Photography

This book discusses themes of locality and regionality. Its starting point is the geographer J. G. Granö’s (1882-1956) photographic work from his research expeditions in Eurasia. Granö’s interpretation of the landscape meets the ideas of three contemporary photographers, Taneli Eskola, Jorma Puranen and Pentti Sammallahti. These photographers have studied the cultural landscape of the Skolt Sami and the nomads of Central Asia.

Text by Taneli Eskola.

Musta Taide 2/2005 | duotone and four-colour print | 112 pages | 20 €

A Land Shared - The Contemporary and Applied Art of the Northern Peoples

A book with extraordinary pictures and photograps shares light on Fenno-Ugrian peoples contemporary art. Although methods of making art might be modern the themes and inspiration comes from ancient beliefs, myths and legends - and above all from nature. In this book also the artists of Lapland and West-Siberia have their own voice. They tell about their culture and its affects on their art.

2003 | finnish, english, swedish | 178 sivua | four-colour illustrations | 20 €

ten minutes past midnight – Arno Rafael Minkkinen Akseli Gallen-Kallelan vieraana

The Finnish-American photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen is particularly known for his nude self-portraits, in which the artist's body is presented as part of the landscape and the natural environment. Ten minutes past midnight is a cross-section of Minkkinen's oeuvre, from his early self-portraits of the 1970s to his most recent American West collection, photographed in the spectacular landscapes of the Grand Canyon.

1998 | Finnish, English, French | 40 pages | Duotone illustrations | 10 €

Art Noir
– Camera Work by Edvard
Munch, Akseli Gallen-
Kallela, Hugo Simberg,
August Strindberg

1995 | Finnish, English | 99 pages | 10 €

The Drum and the Camera

The Drum and the Camera approaches shamanism from the perspective of contemporary photography. The work of the artist as seeing, experiencing and passing on internal and deeper knowledge is compared to the role of the shaman. Ancient nature worship and shamanism have always been important aspects of the conceptions shared by Finns. A good shaman knew the healing powers of nature. He passed on the old lore of his community and created new knowledge. The artist-shamans of today are seeking the lost contact with nature that appears to have been severed by the predominance of industry and science. The artist also has the important role of producing elements to heal and compose our fragmented egos, to transcend the boundaries of the mind.

Musta Taide 1997 | Finnish, English | 100 pages | Duotone and four-colour illustrations | 10 €

Spark Gaps and Points of Contact
– Erkki Kannosto and Ville Vallgren visiting Tarvaspää

This catalogue boldly brings together and compares the works of two sculptors, the contemporary artist Erkki Kannosto and Ville Vallgren a master from a century ago.

1997 | Finnish, English | 96 pages | Four-colour illustrations | 15 €

Alpo Jaakola
– Every Step on the Forbidden
Lawn

2002 | Finnish, English |
73 pages | Four-colour
illustrations | 10 €

22 Moments under
African Skies
– Tero Laaksonen visiting
Tarvaspää

2003 | Finnish, Swedish,
English | 106 pages | Four-
colour illustrations| 10 €

Tyytymättömät muusat
– Tyko Sallinen, Åke Mattas ja Heikki Alitalo Akseli Gallen-Kallelan vieraana

Published in Finnish, this book, entitled "Dissatisfied Muses" tells of the expressionists Tyko Sallinen, Åke Mattas and Heikki Alitalo. Tyko Sallinen was the first full-blooded expressionist in Finnish art, whose path was followed by Åke Mattas and later by Heikki Alitalo. This, however, did not involve a process of plagiarism but an approach to similar phenomena, an appreciation of the same laws and regularities of art and their interpretation with expressionist means.
1995 | Finnish | 56 pages | Four-colour illustrations | 10 €