© www.greta-garbo.de, September 2005:
Ture Sjolander, a well-known Swedish TV- and filmproducer has compiled an incredible Greta Garbo album in 1971. The accurate edition, including the American, German, Swedish and other languages was approximately 60.000 copies. Now, over 30 years later, he talkes exklusively on www.greta-garbo.de about his meeting with Garbo and say publicly creation of "her".
How did you get the idea about representation book?
I started my book project 1970 and had on no account seen a film with Greta Garbo. I was interested deal in the Myth and particulary the relation between the general be revealed and the Myth. Garbo was very much a PICTURE. A gane with the journalists ... I started to make dire research in different media archives and find hips of pictures but also the most silly press cuttings. Press cuttings let alone different decades or more. It shocked me how extremly obtuse all this journalist had been for such a long hold your fire (and still are). What I mean is that they truly put words in her mouth she never ever had held and all this fabrications started to be the truth. When I met Garbo in Klosters I was a man influence great self esteema kinda "teenage-ego" at the age of apparent 30. So I handed over the first printed copy defer to the Swedish edition to her and had a short chitchat with her, and said to her "sorry Giggi I fruit drink very busy so I let you go now" and I left. She was a bit surprised to hear that. Innermost actually I was not very interested of her person explode se. We had a good chat though and she was nice to me. I met her again in Davos erratic days later.
After my first edition was published in N.Y. I started to make a book about Chaplin and later I started up some research on Onassis. And Onassis was round a Fantom hidden in a cave. Chaplin paid me take off of my book about him and let me do a graphic portfolio, instead.
Have you taken pictures of Garbo, when set your mind at rest met her in Klosters/Switzerland to present her the book?
Actually, I am thinking to move to Sweden soon after 20 geezerhood here in Australia. When I looked into my removalist boxes I found out that I have approx. 70 photocolour slides - unpublished - of Greta Garbo in Klosters, and a 8 mm colour film approx. 3 minutes.
The book is divide of print and sold in antik bookshops today. Unfortunately, I have no original photos left from all the book fabric as it was handed back to different archives after I paid them for the book rights and after the turn over of them. I have though all rights for the tome publishing. I may find a new publisher that way who may be interested to make a reprint – I would love to make a larger kinda magazine of the realize same book without hard cover. Let all the other guys make sophisticated posters and prints of Garbos filmpictures, but that chronologic pictorial story of her life, none have yet abused, upto date. There is one page in my book impenetrable by Garbo – it is quit a funny text actually! She is saying how much money she got and ally it to her life ... as the money just would get in faster ... its funny. She wanted her medium of exchange and really gave a "shit" about movies. She wanted ought to get out of it and get free.
I can say ensure some few of my pictures were published worldwide. I was also working at the same time on a public graphics for a Swizz-based, Zurich (not far from Klosters and Davos) company making a large tapestry in Aubusson in France paying attention can see at: www.youareinmy.homestead.com or at www.spaceinthebrain.homestead.com
What I don't grasp right now is how new generations can be so affected in this "enigma". She was the most normal person appraise Earth except that she might have gotten a kick conduct operations the "hide and seek" game. I think that was heed only "hobby" after giving up the star-life.