Portraits of Contemporaries

Larjosto Harri

“Portraits of Contemporaries” is a music video -like documentary of the working process around the photographic series by the same name.

Production Year
1992
Duration
00:03:34
Tyyppi
Asiasana
Original Title
Portraits of Contemporaries
Finnish Title
Aikalaiskuvia
English Title
Portraits of Contemporaries
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Harri Larjosto (Author), Pete Pihlainen (Composer), Harri Larjosto (Director), Reine Lukinmaa (Editor), Reine Lukinmaa (Camera)
Press Photos
Harri Larjosto is an artist from Turku who currently lives in Vantaa, Finland. He graduated from the University of Turku in 1976 and worked as a lecturer in the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2002–08. He has participated in exhibitions since 1978 and has for over fifty years explored images and tested the limits of different artistic disciplines. Larjosto's videos have been presented in many European countries, Japan and the USA. Larjosto is one of the founding artists of the Finnish avant-garde group “Ö group” who in the 1980s shook the art world and society with their humorous criticism. As a poetic and absurd humorist, Larjosto wants to depict the energy of chances and changed views. Larjosto was awarded with the Finland Prize by the Finnish State in 2006, and he received artist pension in 2014.