{"id":1050,"date":"2025-02-12T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2025-02-12T12:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T11:17:08","slug":"carl-abrahamsson-more-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"Carl Abrahamsson: More Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new photo book by Carl Abrahamsson has just been published: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QbcVPg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More Americans.<\/a><\/p><p>Black and white photographs from American journeys between 1989 and 2012. With his intuitive gaze steering towards the netherworlds of an America that contains equal parts dream and nightmare, Swedish author\/photographer Carl Abrahamsson captures a dissolved civilization in stark images: architecture, professionals, homeless, sign languages from bygone days, competition at any cost, saturated emotions, and harsh patterns of a perhaps not so manifest destiny. Working in a tradition of timeless humanist reportage approaches (as formulated by pioneers such as Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Frank), Abrahamsson&#8217;s photographic images display the world as it was right there and then, and also leave a retinal residue that (hopefully) still keeps us thinking today.<br><br>\u201cCarl\u2019s photographs capture the pathos of America\u2019s crumbling artifice, casting an impartial outsider\u2019s eye on our failed dreams and delusions. Now, as we tumble helplessly into our Trumpian dystopia, these images will perhaps serve as nostalgic icons of a disintegrating paradise, soon to be gone forever.\u201d&nbsp;<em>\u2013 Michael Gira<\/em><\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s like when I found my next door neighbor\u2019s photographs of my own house that he had been secretly taking.\u201d&nbsp;<em>\u2013 Joe Coleman<\/em><\/p><p>\u201cWelcome to the unedited, unfiltered and unveiled world of the promised land. More Americans&#8230; Images that tell stories within a story through an eye of awareness and honesty.\u201d&nbsp;<em>\u2013 Carl Michael von Hausswolff<\/em><\/p><p>\u201dAbrahamsson views the American landscape from a cultural distance, finding unexpected moments of grace in street corners and forgotten spaces. His black and white photographs cut through pretense to capture an America that exists in the space between glitter and rust, hope and hopelessness, lives unfolding in the shadow of fading dreams.\u201d\u00a0<em>\u2013 Sean Bonner<\/em><br><br>Trapart Books, 2025. 172 pages, hardbound. <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QbdoRw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AVAILABLE HERE (and on any of the regional\/national Amazon sites).<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new photo book by Carl Abrahamsson has just been published: More Americans. Black and white photographs from American journeys between 1989 and 2012. With his intuitive gaze steering towards the netherworlds of an America that contains equal parts dream and nightmare, Swedish author\/photographer Carl Abrahamsson captures a dissolved civilization in stark images: architecture, professionals, homeless, sign languages from bygone days, competition at any cost, saturated emotions, and harsh patterns of a perhaps not so manifest destiny. Working in a tradition of timeless humanist reportage approaches (as formulated by pioneers such as Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Frank), Abrahamsson&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Moreamericans-cover.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}