American Winter Special Edition

Please note: Special Edition - any orders containing this title will be shipped from the UK, and may be subject to additional charges upon delivery.

Special edition divided into 5 sets, each comprising a signed first edition of the book housed in a cardboard mailer slipcase with one of five silver gelatin prints [signed and numbered].
 

Since the early eighties, Gerry Johansson has made quiet pictures of quiet places, often 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, 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. In his photographs, 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. Johansson’s ascetic framing and sensitivity to light lends itself to the scenery and the sense of hopelessness evoked by these neglected places.