{"id":1059,"date":"2025-03-14T13:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2025-03-14T13:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:03:22","slug":"a-new-photo-book-on-florida-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"A new photo book on Florida weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new book by Carl Abrahamsson is called <em>Sunshine Snowbirds \u2013 Photographs from Florida<\/em>, and that&#8217;s exactly what it is!<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swedish author-photographer Carl Abrahamsson traveled all over Florida in an attempt at understanding whether the &#8220;sunshine state&#8221; is cursed or blessed \u2013 or perhaps a bit of both? His book is a colorful journey through exotic prettiness and terrifying weirdness. Swinging manically between old-school styles and contemporary vulgarity, Florida never disappoints \u2013 a photographer&#8217;s paradise in so many ways.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the Florida Keys to Disney World, from Miami to St Petersburg, and from the Everglades straight into a loose mind-frame that will be dazzled by bright sunlight and then cooled down by swift &#8220;sun-showers&#8221;&#8230; Florida is genuinely a weird and wonderful place!<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With over 200 photographs in this book, Abrahamsson gives you a peek of what it&#8217;s like to be there, in full technicolor glory.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;\u201cIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times&#8230;\u201d Dickens called it and Carl Abrahamsson depicts it \u2013 perfectly&#8230; After 11 years here I still wonder why \u2013 an REM dreamscape perhaps? Strange tricks of light dance here \u2013 the ugliest of strip malls turn suddenly heavenly magical as the ever changing eye blinks&#8230; it\u2019s the ugliest, cruelest, most unforgiving place and the most beautiful, kind, compassionate place from minute to minute \u2013 and those minutes be regardless cinematic, humbling, anarchic \u2013 and always endlessly weird&#8230; and as we know, weird can be wonderful, weird can be scary, but weird is rarely boring. Carl\u2019s collection of works here conveys succinctly and stunningly that bipolar exquisite\/ excruciating blink shot flash between the surreal worlds we call home.&#8221; \u2013 Little Annie Bandez<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Carl\u2019s unique vision has helped me see my home in a new way\u2026 So many things I never would have noticed or come to appreciate without him.&#8221; \u2013 Vanessa Sinclair<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3DJX6wi\">The book can be ordered right here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new book by Carl Abrahamsson is called Sunshine Snowbirds \u2013 Photographs from Florida, and that&#8217;s exactly what it is! Swedish author-photographer Carl Abrahamsson traveled all over Florida in an attempt at understanding whether the &#8220;sunshine state&#8221; is cursed or blessed \u2013 or perhaps a bit of both? His book is a colorful journey through exotic prettiness and terrifying weirdness. Swinging manically between old-school styles and contemporary vulgarity, Florida never disappoints \u2013 a photographer&#8217;s paradise in so many ways. From the Florida Keys to Disney World, from Miami to St Petersburg, and from the Everglades straight into a loose mind-frame&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SunshineSnowbirds-cover-kopia.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","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=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygge.trapart.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}