Simone Kappeler: America 1981

 

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Zurich’s youth was rebellious. An entire generation of students was in search for the new. In 1981, photographic artist Simone Kappeler left her native Switzerland, setting off on a road trip across America. She took with her a Hasselblad, a 35mm camera, as well as a Polaroid. Over the course of the journey, she would add a multitude of cheap cameras to this collection that enabled snapshot-like images - taken unselfconsciously whenever a motif sprang at her. The images reflect a direct and unrestrained manner, they tell of immediate sensual experience and the longing for freedom and independence.

 

Edited by Jürg Trösch, Markus Bosshard. Author Peter Pfrunder. Graphic design by Markus Bosshard.

©Photographs Simone Kappeler