Gerry Johansson - Spanish Summer

Gerry Johansson
Spanish Summer

Published by Mack Books, February 2022
Size: 24 x 17 cm
320 pages
First edition

For over thirty years, Gerry Johansson has turned his perceptive and sensitive gaze on peripheral landscapes around the world, from Ulaanbaatar to Antarctica. With Spanish Summer, he returns to one of the first places that captured his imagination: the plains of central Spain. The chapel remained etched in Johansson's memory and, decades later, has led him to return to rediscover the country's architectural heritage, religious significance, and beauty. These images constitute a study of a landscape in which thousands of years of cultural traces have been deposited. Johansson's rigorous composition and delicate black-and-white tones reveal an ephemeral territory where telephone wires transcend crucifixes, modern plaster meets timeworn stone, and the shadows of industrial megaliths stretch blindly through the dust.