Vesa Oja (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very nice copy, clean and tight. Both English and Finnish text.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minimal dents and scratches on the covers. Vesa Oja worked for 34 years as a photojournalist for the biggest newspaper in Finland, Helsingin Sanomat. This book emerges from the starting points of the intrensic value of photography, its testimonial and evidential funcion. Contains lots of black and white and colour photos. Texts by Jaan Kaplinski and Jukka Mallinen. Text in English and Finnish. 101 pp.

Kein Einband. Condition: Gut. Softcover, guter Zustand mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, Musta Taide Finnland 1999, Versand weltweit / international shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Pictorial boards with printed titling to spine and front board. Pages are clean, no markings from previous owners. Boards are clean and bright with light bumping to spine tail and hinge, light bumping to front fore edge, light bumping and creasing to corners. Boards are lightly scuffed. Binding is tight, spine is slightly cocked. Text block has a few small spots of soiling to top edge, but is otherwise clean.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very nice copy with minimal wear and minor dents. Finglish is the first major work of photographic documentation of Finns in North America. Setting out to trace his relatives, Vesa Oja came across an Americanized way of life with a Finnish touch, dreams, utopias and homesickness. Vesa and Päivi Oja journeyed from New York to California and from Ontario to Florida. Over a period of eight years thousands of photographs were taken and hundreds of people were interviewed. The stories of Vesa Oja's uncle and aunt are part of the history of migration. Almost 800,000 descendants of Finns who went to seek a better life and future live in different parts of North America. The Finns first went to work in mines, factories, construction, logging or domestic service They saved money for their own dream of a farm They remembered their land of birth where they might never return. New settlements were given names such as Kaleva, Elo, Nisula, Heinola Onnela, Sointula and Suomi. Finglish offers a journey in time where past and present meet with gentle and wistful humor. Text in English and Finnish. 239 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 240 pp. Rare hardcover ed. Finglish is a documentary project of Finnish Americans and Finnish Canadians by Finnish photojournalist Vesa Oja. Finglish was published as a book in 2013 and exhibited in several museums and galleries in Finland and in the USA.