alex Thompson

Photographer
   
Location: Stockton, CA
Biography: In the famous words of Walt Whitman, "I am large, I contain multitudes.: More definitively, I am the type of person that views the world from the corner of my eye. My reality is formed from the details; the small stories that add up to form this... MORE
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Photography and the Road
Private Draft
alex thompson
Jan 5, 2017
My latest contribution to PetaPixel uses a review of Justine Kurland's latest book Highway Kind as a catalyst to talk about photography's long-time love affair with the road. Here's an excerpt:

"The voice of the photographer has acted like an anthropological record of American ways of living, following each dead-end road, dusty highway, and crossing every bridge to reach the fringes of our society in order to make our view whole. In the life of the medium, photography and the road have become synonymous with each other because this combination powerfully shows us parts of our world that we might otherwise forget is there at all."

Read it in full at: http://petapixel.com/2017/01/05/photography-road-american-way/
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