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American Roads Portfolio1982

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Black and white photograph of a flat rural field with a bare tree trunk bearing hand-lettered boards reading 'A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever,' barbed-wire fence and utility pole to the left
Gelatin silver print, view from inside a convertible car looking over a dashboard scattered with pinecones and seashells toward a horse standing in the middle of a narrow rural road, flat grassland and utility poles receding to the horizon.
Color photograph of a fallen stop sign lying face-down across a concrete parking lot curb, shot from above with warm golden tones and slight vignetting at the edges.
Color photograph of an outdoor ticket booth with a yellow 'TICKETS' sign and a red 'CLOSED' sign. A painted plywood board depicts three figures — a boy, a child, and an adult — with a hand-lettered admission price list. A pink and white trailer is visible in the background.
Black and white photographic collage on dark background: a row of people leaning over a railing tops a large grid of repeating abstract curved shapes; below, a side-view photograph of a bus labeled "AMERICAN SIGHTSEEING TOURS."
Black and white photograph with hand-applied color, showing a roadside billboard reading 'Air Force A Great Way of Life — See Your Air Force Recruiter,' with a jet aircraft altered in pink and orange tones. A blue-tinted sedan is parked beside a dark utility box on a gravel lot. Small hand-drawn sketches in red and green ink appear in the corners; penciled notation at lower right reads 'T.W. 7 1982.'
Gelatin silver print of a large roadside dinosaur sculpture at night, its paint visibly weathered and peeling, jaws open wide; a motel sign reading "Millecam's Motel" is visible at left, with lit commercial signs in the dark background.
Gelatin silver print grid of 42 small black-and-white photographs arranged in seven rows, depicting flat American landscapes including straight roads receding to the horizon, open water, scrubland, and treelines under wide skies.
Black and white aerial photograph of a highway interchange under construction, showing curved ramps, retaining walls, and excavated earth amid surrounding streets and buildings.
Gelatin silver print, aerial view of a desert canyon parking area with numerous mid-20th-century automobiles and scattered figures, saguaro cacti and desert scrub in the foreground, a small reservoir and dense hillside vegetation in the background.
Gelatin silver print of a two-lane highway receding toward distant mountains beneath an overcast sky, with the rear quarter panel of a Volkswagen Beetle visible at lower right; handwritten caption and date in white ink along the bottom edge.
Color photograph taken at night, a severely damaged bright green compact car with crushed roof and mangled doors on a urban street corner, a yellow fire hydrant and illuminated gas station sign visible in the background.
Gelatin silver diptych; two nearly white rectangular frames side by side, each with a small commercial airplane image at lower center, one frame showing a diagonal dark architectural fragment at upper right
Gelatin silver print of a nighttime street scene; a large, halation-blurred light source glows intensely against a flat building wall, with a parked sedan in the foreground and an illuminated storefront visible at right.
Gelatin silver print of a roadside gas station, with a potted artificial palm tree and fuel price signs in the foreground, a canopy structure and partial storefront visible in the background under a flat, overcast sky.
Grid of four color snapshots: top left, a child near stacked tires with a small skull toy; top right, figures gathered outdoors in bright sunlight near a building; bottom left, a young person leaning against a car interior beside a dog; bottom right, a colorful toy tricycle on what appears to be a bridge railing with a highway visible below.
Color photograph of a two-lane rural road lined with conifers and dry grass; in the foreground, a white car with an open door sits on the roadside; in the middle distance, a large animal carcass lies on the pavement in front of a truck, with several bystanders gathered nearby under a clear blue sky.
High-contrast black and white photograph of a single-story house nearly obscured by dense tall reeds or cane stalks, viewed from across a road, with a cloudy sky above.
Color photograph of a row of vintage car bodies buried nose-first in sandy desert soil, receding into the distance under a deep blue dusk sky, with graffiti scratched into the weathered metal of the nearest vehicle.
Artist or Maker
Unknown
Title
American Roads Portfolio
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1982
Dimensions
Mount: 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number
M.2008.40.94.1-.22
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography