Secondary Research- Gerry Johansson
Gerry Johansson is a swedish Photographer, he lived in Varberg when he became Swedish school champion in colour photography in 1961. But those days are over. “Photography in black and white is like listening to the radio. Colour is like watching television.”
Gerry Johansson is a visual artist who has an ability to express himself in words as well. But other people too have formulated memorable quotations about their impressions of his pictures: “It always seems as if someone has recently been in Gerry Johansson’s pictures, but has just left. No one has touched anything, or done anything, no one has messed things up, made a muddle, caused a disturbance, or moved anything. Just someone who was there for a little while, walked into the moment, walked out of the picture.”
One of Johansson's work "Tokyo" is one of his most well known perices of work which captures the city of Tokyo and its design and buildings,Tokyo is a visual journey through a city at once futuristic and obsolete, its visionary design worn out – like that of a past era. Johanasson uses photography to index the city, finding form and pragmatic order through accumulation and sequence, revealing the city's hidden, modular logic: lego-like segments, a basic square unit repeated indefinitely and in various sizes. These images are unpeopled, showing only the architecture of the city, a container of 13 million people, organised around mass movement and the funnelling of human traffic. Between the concrete, glass and steel, the occasional green life sprouts – miniature gardens in the narrow alleyways, or a cluster of flower pots lining the sidewalk. The architecture creates its own topography, and the city is glimpsed as the last outpost of a fading, mechanised world.
My Favourite Images
These are my favourite images as Johannson has used a higher exposure in black and white, this makes his images stand out more and you can see the highlights and shodows better.
Other works from Gerry Johansson
