PHOTO BOOKS 7 items.

Centennium, Fotografi i Sverige Part 1: 1895-1974, 2007, dimensions 30x30 cm.

Photography Index 1, dimensions 28x33 cm.

Kuva-Aulanko Taneli Eskola, 1992, dimensions 24x29 cm.

Photography as fine art, published by Thames and Hudson 1983, printed in Japan, dimensions 25x30 cm.

Magnum Photo 101, magazine, dimensions 21x29 cm.

In our time, The world as seen by Magnum Photographers, published 1989, dimensions 24x33 cm.

Landscape The library of world Photography, Thames and Hudson, printed in Japan 1984, dimensions 24x29 cm.

Provenance: The estate of photographer Nils-Erik Wikebäck (1934–2025)

Deep inside a dark storage room, a long-hidden treasure was found – hundreds of vintage photographs, taken and developed by the artist himself. Images from the late 1960s onwards, which have lain in silence for over half a century, bear witness to an artistry that operated in the shadows but with a natural place in the photographic movement of its time.

Born in Södra Viker and raised in Lennartsfors, Nils-Erik Wikebäck developed his visual sense early on and, as an autodidact, worked his way to a personal and technically accomplished expression. His breakthrough came in 1966 when he was accepted into the influential Bildgruppen CAMUS, whose international successes would also shape his own career.
Over the years, his photography was recognized in some thirty countries, with several prestigious awards and exhibitions in Europe, the USA, and Japan.

This auction presents a selection of his darkroom-developed vintage photographs, mainly from the latter part of the 1960s, as well as his personal collection of photo books – featuring names such as Irving Penn, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Richard Avedon.
Nils-Erik Wikebäck emerges as a photographer's photographer – an uncompromising perfectionist, where precision and integrity were guiding principles in every image.