Per Olov Jansson (22 April 1920 – 7 February 2019) was a
Swedish-speaking Finnish photographer.
[''Valolla piirtäjä - 60 vuotta valokuvaajana''. 2006.]
Early life
He is the son of artists
Viktor Jansson and Swedish-born
Signe Hammarsten-Jansson
Signe "Ham" Hammarsten-Jansson (née Hammarsten, 1 June 1882 – 6 July 1970) was a Swedish-Finnish graphic artist who designed, among other things, around 220 Finnish postage stamps during the course of three decades.''Suomen postimerkkitaiteilij ...
, and the brother of writer
Tove Jansson
Tove Marika Jansson (; 9 August 1914 – 27 June 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, ...
and cartoonist
Lars Jansson. His photography has appeared in books by Tove Jansson, including ''
Skurken i Muminhuset'' (1980) and ''Anteckningar från en ö'' (1993), and Tove's 1971 novel, ''Lyssnerskan'' is dedicated to him. He is also responsible for a great number of photos of his sister.
Jansson's photographs have been described as emphasizing the act of artistic creation and his technique has been noted to rely heavily on perspective and the relationship between light, dark, and medium contrast.
[Solberg, Silje E. ]
Om forholdet mellom ord og bilde i Tove Janssons novelle 'Svart-vitt. Hommage à Edward Gorey'
' - Introduction. University of Tromsø
The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway ( Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway a ...
. Pg. 6. 2010.
During the 1950s, he formed a company called Aerofoto with his brother Lars. Despite his long photographic career, Jansson's first photo exhibition only occurred in 2000 to coincide with his 80th birthday.
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References
1920 births
2019 deaths
Finnish photographers
Moomins
Per Olov
Swedish-speaking Finns
Finnish people of Swedish descent
Finnish military personnel of World War II
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