Dawid Själv

These are self-portraits taken over fifty years with a photographer's seriousness but also with playfulness. Images are not necessarily intended to be displayed. When Linda Bergman, editor of the book, asks DAWID (Björn Dawidsson) to go through her photographic archive and look for self-portraits, it is not to create an autobiography and a story about the photographer's life so much as to examine the image the photographer has of himself and has created itself through its own medium of expression, through its camera. We are invited into the famous photographer's life in pictures from 1968-2018. From the first school assignments at Christer Strömholm's photography school, to the 1980s when his career explodes and the film formats become larger, to the digital era and the return to small-scale photography. We get to see polaroids with broken corners, the photographer's self-portrait with girlfriends, wives and their son. The pictures show the photographic work in the studio and in the gallery, personal revolutionary events such as a frontal collision on a motorway in Belgium and pictures where we can read in the self-portrait sadness, anger and joy / humor. When Linda Bergman looks t