LET THE WORLD ADORE YOU
by Lisa Brunzel
80 pages 300x300mm
Softcover book with holographic slipcase
Photographs: Liza Brunzell
Editing & Design: Alejandro Acín (ICVL Studio)
Printing: Gomer Press
Pre-Press: Eva-Teréz Gölin
Text: Kit Green
© Photographs: Lisa Brunzel, 2024
© Publication: Lisa Brunzel & ICVL Studio, 2024
Published in collaboration with ICVL Studio.
Wales, July 20
After winning the Eurovision song contest held in Brighton in 1974, ABBA became a symbol of Sweden across Europe. Young, blond and reserved they became stars overnight. The photographer Lisa Brunzell, a Swede living in Wales, found that their songs have been kept alive through the large number of tribute bands dedicated to the legendary pop band. In this work she explores how the tribute artists are making their own individual interpretation of the original ABBAs and in the pictures representing both the original members of the band and their own individuality. Lingering between performance and reality the artists are not fully themselves but not fully the character, or maybe both at the same time.