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"Since the early eighties, Swedish photographer Gerry JOHANSSON has made quiet pictures of quiet places, often lying in the shadows of industrial decline. For the photo volume 'American Winter', he travelled through semi-deserted towns in Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, finding as much beauty as there was misery in landscapes cloaked in snow: an isolated church floating in a mottled sea of white; leafless trees lining endless highways leading to nothing; long shadows cast on vernacular architecture in the season’s merciless sun.Content
In the photographs in the photo volume 'American Winter' by Gerry JOHANSSON time appears to stand still: neighbourhoods that once possessed the allure of Art Deco architecture, or the glory of bustling Main Streets, are now home to abandoned school buildings and cars parked decades ago. His ascetic framing and sensitivity to light lends itself to the scenery and the sense of hopelessness evoked by these neglected places." (© Mack books, 2018)
About the Swedish photographer, Gerry JOHANSSON (b. 1945, in Örebro)
Photo books by Gerry JOHANSSON
- Format
- Boxed set with linen bound HC book and ONE Print. Print size: 9 x 9.2 cm., image on 16.9 x 23.9 cm. silver gelatin paper