Since his release of The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries in 1957, Ingmar Bergman has been one of the leading figures in international cinema.

In a career that spanned 60 years, he wrote, produced, and directed 50 films that defined how we see ourselves and how we interact with the people we love, through works like Persona, Scenes from a Marriage, and Fanny and Alexander.

Before his death in 2007, Bergman gave Taschen and the Swedish publishing house Max Strom complete access to his archives at the Bergman Foundation as well as permission to reprint his writings and interviews, many of which have never been seen outside of Sweden.

Picture researcher Bengt Wanselius, who was Bergman’s photographer for 20 years, scoured photo archives all over Sweden, discovered previously unseen images from Bergman’s films, and selected unpublished images from many photographers’ personal archives.

Charting the director’s entire working life in film, The Ingmar Bergman Archives features rare material and film snippets that trace a body of work immersed in the mystery, ecstasy and fullness of life.

The Ingmar Bergman Archives: a homage to the Swedish auteur Show all 9 1 /9 The Ingmar Bergman Archives: a homage to the Swedish auteur The Ingmar Bergman Archives: a homage to the Swedish auteur Summer with Monika (1953) It was too difficult to shoot the interiors inside the boat, so this “cut” set was rigged. Here Bergman lines up a shot, with his sound assistant maneuvering a fairly basic mike, and cinematographer Gunnar Fischer at extreme right AB Svensk Filmindustri The Ingmar Bergman Archives: a homage to the Swedish auteur Persona (1966) Bergman and Liv Ullmann (as Elisabet Vogler) take a break from filming Persona on the island of Fårö in 1966 AB Svensk Filmindustri The Ingmar Bergman Archives: a homage to the Swedish auteur The Devil’s Eye (1960) Although the car is stationary, the illusion of speed is given by the moving shadows of foliage across the actors’ faces Lennart Nilsson Photography The Ingmar Bergman Archives: a homage to the Swedish auteur Winter Light (1963) Bergman and Vilgot Sjöman kidding around in the freezing winter of 1961 Lennart Nilsson Photography The Ingmar Bergman Archives: a homage to the Swedish auteur Winter Light (1963) Sven Nykvist behind Bergman as Ingrid Thulin rehearses the scene in the schoolroom. Sven and Ingmar knew each other so well on set that they hardly needed to communicate verbally Lennart Nilsson Photography The Ingmar Bergman Archives: a homage to the Swedish auteur Shame (1968) Bergman rehearses with Liv Ullmann under the watchful eye of continuity expert Katinka Faragó Lennart Nilsson Photography The Ingmar Bergman Archives: a homage to the Swedish auteur Fanny and Alexander (1982) On the set of Fanny and Alexander, Bergman shares a bed with Erland Josephson, his friend since the 1940s AB Svensk Filmindustri, Svenska Filminsitutet The Ingmar Bergman Archives: a homage to the Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman clowning around in the foyer of the Royal Dramatic Theater in 1996 Bengt Wanselius The Ingmar Bergman Archives: a homage to the Swedish auteur The Ingmar Bergman Archives From the archives at the Bergman Foundation comes an homage to the Swedish auteur and consummate explorer of the human condition. This re-edition brings back TASCHEN’s award-winning publication, produced with many of Ingmar Bergman’s close collaborators. Charting the director’s entire working life in film, it features rare material and film snippets that trace a body of work immersed in the mystery, ecstasy, and fullness of life.

The editor

Bengt Wanselius was a freelance photojournalist for every major magazine and publishing house in Scandinavia from 1967 to 1985.

He spent 15 years as the house photographer at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, recording the work of internationally well known theatre directors such as Arthur Miller, Andrzej Wajda, Robert Lepage and Ingmar Bergman.

His long collaboration on 20 productions with Bergman ranged from theatre and opera to television, creating a unique photographic documentary of Bergman’s works.