American Winter Doris Derby expressive architectures

expressive architectures

I wanted to express the chaos and pressure that was around me'

and filmmaker Allan Sekula was originally published by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984

and renewal across landscapes equally real and imagined by the artist

American Winter Doris Derby expressive architecturesSince 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