Hermosa Beach 1983 Kodachrome Print – California Street Photography, Limited Edition

Sidewalk Stories – Hermosa Beach 1983 – Limited Edition Fine Art Print – Kodachrome Photography – California Street Photography

A third grader leans over a patchwork of chalk and cement, completely absorbed in bringing his imagination to life. The day before, his classmates had transformed this back patio into a kaleidoscope of color during art class — an event he had missed. Seeing his disappointment, I handed him a box of chalk and simply said, go ahead.

Captured in Hermosa Beach in 1983 on Kodachrome film, this photograph was selected for the cover of the Los Angeles Times Home Magazine 10th Annual Photo Contest issue, June 1983. The original is a 30×20" C-print darkroom photograph, made from the slide in the traditional analog process. It hangs in the artist's private collection.

Kodachrome — the film that defined American documentary and editorial photography for four decades — renders color with a warmth and depth that no digital process has fully replicated. What you see in this print is not nostalgia. It is the actual light of that morning in 1983, preserved in silver and dye.

Edition: Each limited edition print is hand-signed and numbered by the artist. A Certificate of Authenticity accompanies every print. Once the edition sells out it is permanently retired. This edition is strictly limited to 50 prints.
Medium: Film photography — Kodachrome slide film, digitized. Hermosa Beach, California, 1983.
Size: Available in five sizes. Select your size from the dropdown menu above.
Paper: All sizes printed on Hahnemühle Photo Luster 290 — a premium fine art paper chosen for its exceptional color depth and warm luminosity, honoring the original Kodachrome palette.

About the Artist: Harry Johansing is a California-based photographer with a life spent with a camera — self-taught, experimental, working across film and digital. In 1992 he founded Costa Rica Natural Paper Co., and paper has been central to his practice ever since — not as a surface but as a material with its own presence in the work. His photography has taken him across California, Mexico, Central America, and sub-Saharan Africa. His prints are held in private collections internationally.

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All photographs and prints are copyrighted © Harry Johansing. Purchase does not transfer copyright or reproduction rights.