Coast to Coast
Gerry Johansson
In 1983 Gerry Johansson embarked on a veritable photographic odyssey with the aim of meeting editors, printers and photographers, while producing his own images along the way. This was neither his first nor his last stay in the United States. But on this occasion, he traded his 35mm camera from the 1960s for a large-format camera, which allowed him to leave the "street photography" inspired by photographers such as Walker Evans, Paul Strand or Helen Levitt, to capture the vastness of the American countryside.
Every night, going from motel to motel, he developed his 8x10'' negatives and made contact copies to visually record his journey. The book Coast to Coast, which is part of the Coast to Coast portfolio, tells about this journey. It contains a selection of photographs taken by Gerry Johansson in New York at the age of seventeen, as well as portraits of the photographers – Henry Wessel Jr., Garry Winogrand, William Eggleston, Richard Benson – he encountered a few years before and during his momentous trip in 1983, together with sixteen "Motel Prints" selected from the contact copies made at the time.
Imagebeeld Edition
2023
Softcover
32 x 34 cm
48 pages
Signed
£35
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Gerry Johansson
In 1983 Gerry Johansson embarked on a veritable photographic odyssey with the aim of meeting editors, printers and photographers, while producing his own images along the way. This was neither his first nor his last stay in the United States. But on this occasion, he traded his 35mm camera from the 1960s for a large-format camera, which allowed him to leave the "street photography" inspired by photographers such as Walker Evans, Paul Strand or Helen Levitt, to capture the vastness of the American countryside.
Every night, going from motel to motel, he developed his 8x10'' negatives and made contact copies to visually record his journey. The book Coast to Coast, which is part of the Coast to Coast portfolio, tells about this journey. It contains a selection of photographs taken by Gerry Johansson in New York at the age of seventeen, as well as portraits of the photographers – Henry Wessel Jr., Garry Winogrand, William Eggleston, Richard Benson – he encountered a few years before and during his momentous trip in 1983, together with sixteen "Motel Prints" selected from the contact copies made at the time.
Imagebeeld Edition
2023
Softcover
32 x 34 cm
48 pages
Signed
£35
Enquire