Blake Andrews is a photographer based in Eugene, OR. He writes about photography at blakeandrews.blogspot.com.
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Somewhere Along The Line
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Blake Andrews selects Somewhere Along the Line Photographs and text by Joshua Dudley Greer, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2019, as Book of the Week.
"Among the recent crop of road trippers is Joshua Dudley Greer. Between 2011 and 2017, from his home base in Tennessee, he put over 100,000 miles on his car, view camera in tow. For Greer the nation's road network was not simply an accommodation, it was his photographic subject. Or, to be more specific, his foil. "These roadways," he wrote as the project was developing, "have been designed to suppress any distinguishing characteristics of place and instead construct a familiar and uniform system of functional spaces built for mobility and productivity."
Them's fighting words, or at least they were initially. But a funny thing happened on Greer's way to critiquing the American highway system. He found countless scenes of quiet reverie and beauty. Sixty-two of them have been collected in his debut monograph, Somewhere Along The Line....
Greer's photos are packed with information across a wide depth of field. Fortunately, the book is scaled to allow for large reproductions. The book is nearly 11”x14”, with photographs around 9”x12”. The colors and tonality are spot on, with a wonderful semi-matte sheen, and slightly desaturated to remain authentic to the original scenes. Throw in two essays, maps, and a detailed travel itinerary and the whole package is quite an impressive debut. This book is bound to inspire some great American road trips, perhaps with cameras in tow."—Blake Andrews Read more
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