GERRY JOHANSSON American Winter – Signed Copy

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GERRY JOHANSSON American Winter. Since the early eighties, Gerry Johansson has made quiet pictures of quiet places. Often, those places are lying in the shadows of industrial decline. For American Winter, Johansson travelled through semi-deserted towns in Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. There, he found as much beauty as there was misery in landscapes cloaked in snow. Such as, an isolated church floating in a mottled sea of white. Or, leafless trees lining endless highways leading to nothing. And long shadows cast on vernacular architecture in the season’s merciless sun.

In his photographs, time appears to stand still. We see neighbourhoods that once possessed the allure of Art Deco architecture. Alongside the glory of bustling Main Streets that are now home to abandoned school buildings and cars parked decades ago. Johansson’s ascetic framing and sensitivity to light lend itself to the scenery. Thus evoking the sense of hopelessness evoked by these neglected places.

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