David Campany’s study of the great photographic odysseys across America reveals a country more diverse than ever
The idea of the great American road trip – a voyage outwards into new experiences, and inwards into a new consciousness – began in earnest with Jack Kerouac’s novel, On the Road, in 1957. Two years later, it was Kerouac who wrote the introduction to the first US edition of The Americans by Robert Frank, a now classic photography book in the iconoclastic spirit of the Beats.
Although photographers from Ansel Adams to Walker Evans had photographed America, David Campany chooses The Americans as the starting point for his critical journey into the photographic road trip, noting that the Swiss-born Frank set out with his Guggenheim Grant to do something new and unconstrained by commercial diktats. His aim was to photograph America as it unfolded before his somewhat sombre outsider’s eye.
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Although photographers from Ansel Adams to Walker Evans had photographed America, David Campany chooses The Americans as the starting point for his critical journey into the photographic road trip, noting that the Swiss-born Frank set out with his Guggenheim Grant to do something new and unconstrained by commercial diktats. His aim was to photograph America as it unfolded before his somewhat sombre outsider’s eye.
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