In 2001, through a grant from the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, Gerry Johansson traveled to the inaccessible and distinct landscape of Antarctica on a research trip for two months. With him on the journey he had a large-format camera and his fearless curiosity. The series of photos eventuate in an unusual reality relevant perspective, and capture the astonishing non-distance relationship between physicality and nature
ANTARKTIS / ANTARCTIC. 2nd edition – SIGNED COPY
Libraryman Co., Ltd, 2015 ( 2014). 4to (24,5 cm x 30,5 cm). Linen thread bound hardcover with black headband and tip-in image on front cover with spine text in black foil and blind embossed illustration on back cover. 64 pages with 33 duotone plates. Minimal shelfwear to cover. Near fine / fine copy
2nd edition SIGNED IN HAND by Gerry Johansson to titlepage
Cologne: Published by Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, 2006. 36 pages. Text in German. Illustrated throughout. Fine copy.
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“Berlin, Dublin, Lisbon, Rome, but also Amager, Aalborg and Aarhus.
The text reminiscences from the different cities tell about the development in the world and its cityscapes, where everything is always temporary and changing. They also testify to gentrification, for example in the inner city of Rome. The flagship stores of modern capitalism’s corporate stores have taken over retail space that used to offer ordinary necessities of life instead of Prada and Gucci. But in some places, the facades of the former shops remain as traces of a bygone everyday life.
With the right gaze or the right amount of light, these text images appear as suddenly appearing shadows against the background. The texts give the passer-by unfulfilled promises of charcuterie, flowers, bread, groceries, tobacco, etc. As faint markings on doors and windows on facades, where in the near or distant past there was a shop and welcomed customers.
The book’s sober black-and-white images point to the prevalence of the ‘dead’ semi-resolved texts in urban spaces – and the fairly uniform appearance that characterizes them regardless of geographical location. At the same time, the entropic decay can perhaps be compared to the texts left to us by now-disappeared cultures; The inscriptions of the Roman Empire, which are still found around the cityscape of Rome, or the Nordic rune stones and rock carvings”
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Forlaget Vindrose og Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2006. 4to. 279 pp. Illustreret. Hft. Første udgave, 2. oplag. Pænt eksemplar
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First edition thus: Flowers was made in an edition of only 15 copies by Caldecott Chubb in New York in 1978, this being the first trade printing
