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American roads
Title
American roads.
Production
Los Angeles, California : Landweber/Artists, 1982.
Physical Description
20 photographs in 1 portfolio ; photographs 508 x 407 mm and smaller
1 item ; 508 x 407 mm
Notes
Title from cover of colophon.
Portfolio box measures 533 x 432 mm.
Stored in 1 box.
Edition of 100 (unumbered).
In English.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Terry Etherton. Purchased from Etherton Gallery on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2016.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
A portfolio of twenty photographers' images of American highways, streets and roadside attractions. Two of the photographs are reproductions of images originally printed in the 1936 and 1938; the remaining 18 images date from 1974 to 1981. The portfolio was compiled and published by Victor Landweber and his firm, Landweber/Artists, in 1982. Prints are in various photographic media and are signed by the photographers, with images measuring 16 x 20 inches or presented in museum-board mats measuring 16 x 20 inches. The prints are housed in individual folders imprinted with the artist's name. The portfolio is housed in a custom-designed solander case with a copy print affixed to its lid of a Dorothea Lange photograph known as "The Road West," which shows United States Highway 54 in southern New Mexico in 1938. An eight-page pamphlet accompanies the portfolio. It features a copy print of a Walker Evans photograph mounted on its cover that shows hitchhikers near Vicksburg, Mississippi in February 1936, a short story, "Records of a Travel-worn Camera," by James Richard Hugunin, a sequence of photographs by Nathan Lyons, an index to the prints, biographical data about the photographers, and a map that shows where the photographers were living and where each photograph was made.
Photographers and work represented in the portfolio includes: Jim Alinder, "A Joy Forever, Roadside, Florida," 1974, of an outsider art piece photographed at the side of an inland two-lane blacktop between Key West and Disney World, a black-and-white gelatin silver print; Michael Becotte, "Untitled," 1974, from his book Space Capsule (1975), of a horse on a road photographed on the northern East Coast, sepia and gold-toned gelatin silver print; Michael Bishop, "Untitled," 1974, of a stop sign photographed at the side of United States Highway 1 in Los Angeles, California, Ektacolor RC Print; Ken Brown, "Pink Trailer Tilt," 1976, roadside attraction near Cherokee, North Carolina, Ektacolor RC Print; Barbara Crane, "Bus People," 1975, from her mural commission for the Baxter/Travenol Laboratories, which consists of a composition of collaged images that chiefly depicts a bus printed from negatives made in the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois, black-and-white gelatin silver print; Robert Fichter, "Air Power," 1979, Tallahassee, Florida, black-and-white gelatin silver print that chiefly shows a recruitment billboard for United States Air Force with air-brushed color and rubber stamps; Steve Fitch, "Dinosaur, Highway 40, Vernal, Utah," 1974, from his book Diesels and Dinosaurs (1976), which documents a roadside attraction sculpture of a Tyrannosaurus rex, sepia-toned silver print; Robbert Flick, "East of Lancaster, along Highway 14, California," 1981, from "Sequential Views" series, which show 49 images of the area along California Highway 14 in a single print, black-and-white gelatin silver print; Frank Gohlke, "Aerial View, Tulsa, Oklahoma," 1981, from his mural commission for the Tulsa International Airport, which shows an aerial photograph of a highway construction site, black-and-white gelatin silver print; Harold Jones, "Baptism, Sabino Canyon, Tucson, Arizona," 1976, which documents from a distance automobiles in a parking lot at an outdoor baptism ceremony, black-and-white gelatin silver print; Mark Klett, "Storm Clouds over Eastern Idaho, near Craters of the Moon," 1980, black-and-white gelatin silver print; Victor Landweber, "S.N. Ward and Son Mobil Service, Pasadena, California," 1978, which documents the aftermath of an automobile accident at the side of California State Highway 110, Cibachrome print; Nathan Lyons, "Untitled," 1968, 1969, which sequences two discrete prints in a single mat of advertising for Air Canada and American Airlines in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Los Angeles, California, from his book Notations in Passing (1974), black-and-white gelatin silver prints; Elaine Mayes, "Pegasus," 1972, that chiefly shows a lighted advertising sign for a service station of the Mobil Oil Company the photographed at the New York Thruway, I-87, black-and-white gelatin silver print; Roger Minick, "Airstream at Monument Valley, Arizona," 1979, that shows a travel trailer and the West Mitten Butte and East Mitten Butte, black-and-white gelatin silver print; Tod Papageorge, "Burbank, California," 1973, that documents a Texaco service station near the Burbank airport, black-and-white gelatin silver print; Barbara Jo Revelle, "Untitled," 1981, a composition of four images from Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California, with a textual reflection on her father and learning how to drive, Ektacolor RC Print; Joel Sternfeld, "Exhausted Renegade Elephant, Woodland, Washington," 1979, documents an escaped elephant on a country road with onlookers on June 27, 1979, Ektacolor RC Print; Henry Wessel, "Tucson, Arizona," 1974, which shows a house behind a hedge of carrizo reeds, black-and-white gelatin silver print; and Robert A. Widdicombe, "Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo, Texas," 1979, that documents a public art installation and sculpture at the side of United States Highway 66, Ektacolor RC Print.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 24, 2017
References
Victor Landweber, American Roads. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Victor Landweber, American Roads. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Aerial photographs - Oklahoma - Tulsa - Pictorial works.
Black-and-white photographs.
Cibachrome (TM)
Gelatin silver prints.
Photographs.
Also listed under
Landweber/Artists, publisher.
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