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Stephen Shore: American Surfaces: Revised & Expanded Edition
Capturing America in the Early 1970s Stephen Shore American Surfaces is one of the most important photo books of the 1970s. Few works capture the spirit of roadside America in that era as vividly. Shot during Shore’s road trips across the country in 1972 and 1973, the series documents the most ordinary details of life
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Chili, Neon, and a Courthouse Dome: Carlinville, Illinois
I rolled into Carlinville, Illinois, on a bright February afternoon back in 2020. The sky was full of pillowy white clouds and the courthouse dome rose above East Main like a crown. Route 66 once passed through here, but only briefly, from 1926 to 1930. Even so, Carlinville feels like the kind of place where
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Recent Post
- Welcome to RetroHWY!
- American Photographs by Walker Evans (Museum of Modern Art)
- The Abandoned Security State Bank of Mounds, Illinois
- The Great American Retro Road Trip by Rolando Pujol
- Lesterville, Missouri General Store, More Than a Dot on the Map
- Route 66: The Mother Road by Michael Wallis
- Route 66’s Soulsby Shell Station: Still Standing in Mount Olive, IL
- Honk for Service, by Lou Ellen McGinley
- Neon Ghost on the Forgotten 66 – Nite Spot Café, Fairmont City, IL
- Finding Vivian Maier, a film by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
