Gerry Johansson - New York 62/63 (signed)

"After finishing high school in June 1962, I traveled to the United States to live for a year with my relatives in New Jersey, about an hour west of New York. There I did a bit of odd jobs and took some evening courses but had a lot of free time.

A friend, who worked on the Swedish American Line, transported my enlarger over to New York so I could set one up a simple darkroom. Quite often I took the bus to New York and walked around and photographed street life and went to museums and attended The Village Camera Club meetings.

When I returned home after the year in America, the negatives were lying around for 30 years before I looked at them and started printing them. It was a somewhat strange feeling. Like printing another photographer's work. In any case, I put together a small exhibition and some photos were published in the book Amerikabilder 1962-93. 

Now another 30 years have passed before this little book is published. Everything feels, if possible, even more distant and the pictures look rather like they were made in the fifties. I simply have no memory of this being what New York looked like when I was there."

Format: 24 x 17 cm Extent: 48 pages,
24 photographs printed in duplex
Binding: Stapled
Edition: 350 signed and numbered copies
Weight: 190 grams
Printed by: Trydells, Laholm
Production: GunLab, Stockholm, Sweden
Editing and layout by Gerry Johansson and Greger Ulf Nilsson