Reviews
Collected from the bars, streets, and homes Engström frequented, the end result is an intensely intimate, raw, and expressive document and portrait of past loves, adventures, and characters adrift in an ever-shifting cityscape, SKETCH OF PARIS...offers a refreshingly diverse perspective on a well-trodden subject.--Daisy Woodward"Another Magazine" (10/07/2013), Twenty years of photos taken in Paris and, thankfully, nary a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower. Engstrom's photos are more about the unseen Paris. Scary, tough, smoking-cigarettes-and-partying-hard Paris. This book is a sensory overload of full-bleed photos, mixing black and white with color effortlessly. It's a diary of a life lived very, very . . . interestingly., Collected from the bars, streets, and homes Engström frequented, the end result is an intensely intimate, raw, and expressive document and portrait of past loves, adventures, and characters adrift in an ever-shifting cityscape--Colleen Kelsey"Interview" (08/13/2013), A far cry from the Eiffel Tower's oft-photographed silhouette, JH Engstrm's book Sketch of Paris reveals the rough edges and blurred lines of a true portrait., A far cry from the Eiffel Tower's oft-photographed silhouette, JH Engström's book Sketch of Paris reveals the rough edges and blurred lines of a true portrait., Collected from the bars, streets, and homes Engstr_m frequented, the end result is an intensely intimate, raw, and expressive document and portrait of past loves, adventures, and characters adrift in an ever-shifting cityscape, A far cry from the Eiffel Tower's oft-photographed silhouette, JH Engstr_m's book Sketch of Paris reveals the rough edges and blurred lines of a true portrait., Kitten heels, tattoos and telephone booths punctuate this edgy 1980s series, that dwells on the smallest of details rather than the grand tourist destinations. The results give an intimate view of the Parisian underbelly that makes us want to hop on a plane (and a time machine) immediately., Collected from the bars, streets, and homes Engstrm frequented, the end result is an intensely intimate, raw, and expressive document and portrait of past loves, adventures, and characters adrift in an ever-shifting cityscape, Twenty years of photos taken in Paris and, thankfully, nary a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower. Engstrom's photos are more about the unseen Paris. Scary, tough, smoking-cigarettes-and-partying-hard Paris. This book is a sensory overload of full-bleed photos, mixing black and white with color effortlessly. It's a diary of a life lived very, very . . . interestingly.--Amy Kellner"The New York Times Magazine" (12/19/2013)
