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.

Title: New York 62/63/ Gerry Johansson

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

Published by Breadfield Press, Malmö, Sweden

ISBN: 978 91 988210 3 1