Main Street. The Lost Dream of Route 66 – Edward Keating
Main Street. The Lost Dream of Route 66 – Edward Keating
Main Street. The Lost Dream of Route 66 includes 84 photographs taken by Edward Keating along Route 66 from 2000 to 2011.
Once the only direct road to California, an interstate highway system built in the 1950s bypassed ‘the Mother Road’ and shut off its lifeblood, forcing thousands of shops and motels into bankruptcy over the next fifty years.
Between the twin pressures of harmful trade treaties and lower wages abroad, the national economy had changed as well, as entire industries began to dry up, sending a countless number of jobs to Asia and south of the border. Western-bound job seekers now bumped shoulders with Mexican immigrants heading east looking for the same.
As a boy, Keating heard his mother tell stories of growing up in St. Louis near Route 66, tales of her trips to California; and of her father, the first Ford dealer in the bustling city, selling Model A’s in the teens and twenties.
MAIN STREET (which was exhibited in New York at the NAILYA ALEXANDER GALLERY in New York last January) is the result of eleven years of travel along Route 66 — the 2,400 mile stretch between Chicago and Santa Monica. Route 66 has inspired countless artists and writers, including Andy Warhol and Jack Kerouac. Following the path of migrant farmers and others, Keating has ventured westward and back along Route 66, documenting the lives of Americans along the way.
For New York Times journalist Charles LeDuff, “this book is about those who traveled its length and those who settled along the way, wherever their bones and their broken cars dropped them.”
The book is a milestone for an artist who has spent a life wandering along the main streets and back roads of America’s most mythic highway.
About the Author
Edward Keating has served as a photojournalist for nearly 40 years for such publications as The New York Times, Forbes, and Business Week. In 2001, Keating received the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, as well as the John Faber Award for International Reporting, Overseas Press Club, for his series of photographs on the September 11 attacks. He additionally shared the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with New York Times staff for the series, “How Race is Lived in America,” and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for the 1997 series “Vows,” co-authored with Lois Smith Brady. In 2003, Keating joined Contact Press Images photography agency. He is a regular contributor to Time, “W”, and New York Magazine. Formerly a staff member of the New York Times, he has spent the past 30+ years capturing street life in the big apple and abroad.
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Damiani (November 20, 2018)
Language: English
Size: 13 x 0.5 x 10 inches
Weight: 3.4 pounds
ISBN-13: 978-8862086004
Edward Keating has served as a photojournalist for nearly 40 years for such publications as The New York Times, Forbes, and Business Week. In 2001, Keating received the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, as well as the John Faber Award for International Reporting, Overseas Press Club, for his series of photographs on the September 11 attacks. He additionally shared the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with New York Times staff for the series, “How Race is Lived in America,” and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for the 1997 series “Vows,” co-authored with Lois Smith Brady. In 2003, Keating joined Contact Press Images photography agency. He is regular contributor to Time, “W”, and New York Magazine. Formerly a staff member of the New York Times, he has spent the past 30+ years capturing street life in the big apple and abroad.
