
Maine
- Publisher
- The Ice Plant
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 979-8-985733-05-1
- Specifications
- Clothbound hardcover
17 × 24 cm
192 pages
180 duotone images
In 2023 Swedish photographer Gerry Johansson roamed the state of Maine with a Rolleiflex, curious to make new pictures in a region of America he first met in the work of Paul Strand five decades earlier. Echoing the formal restraint of his earlier books, nearly 200 black-and-white duotone photographs are sequenced alphabetically by their oddly poetic northeastern town names (Bath, Friendship, Purgatory). None draws more attention than another, and the playful compositions of architecture and landscape orient the viewer in a specific place while sharing his way of seeing, ambling and thinking with a camera.