The open road : photography & the American road trip
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The open road : photography & the American road trip
Aperture, c2014
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Photograpgy & the American road trip
Photography and the Amercian road trip
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Contents of Works
- Robert Frank : the Americans
- Ed Ruscha : twentysix gasoline stations
- Inge Morath : the road to Reno
- Garry Winogrand : 1964
- William Eggleston : Los Alamos
- Lee Friedlander : American monument
- Joel Meyerowitz : still going
- Jacob Holdt : American pictures
- Stephen Shore : uncommon places
- Bernard Plossu : so long
- Victor Burgin : US77
- Joel Sternfeld : American prospects
- Shinya Fujiwara : American roulette
- Alec Soth : sleeping by the Mississippi
- Todd Hido : a road divided
- Ryan McGinley : the journey is the destination
- Justine Kurland : highway kind
- Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs : the great unreal
Description and Table of Contents
Description
After the end of World War II, the American road trip began appearing prominently in literature, music, movies, and photography. Many photographers embarked on trips across the U.S. in order to create work, including Robert Frank, whose seminal 1955 road trip resulted in The Americans. However, he was preceded by Edward Weston, who traveled across the country taking pictures to illustrate Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass; Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose 1947 trip through the American South and into the West was published in the early 1950s in Harper’s Bazaar; and Ed Ruscha, whose road trips between Los Angeles and Oklahoma later became Twentysix Gasoline Stations. Hundreds of photographers have continued the tradition of the photographic road trip on down to the present, from Stephen Shore to Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs. The Open Road considers the photographic road trip as a genre in and of itself, and presents the story of photographers for whom the American road is muse. The book features David Campany’s introduction to the genre and eighteen chapters presented chronologically, each exploring one American road trip in depth through a portfolio of images and informative texts, highlighting some of the most important bodies of work made on the road from The Americans to present day.
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