Somewhere Along The Line | Joshua Dudley Greer
From 2011 to 2017 I traveled over 100,000 miles by car, focusing my camera on the massive network of superhighways that has become ubiquitous throughout the United States. Whether located within an urban environment or leading out to the last remnants of wilderness, these roadways have been designed to suppress any distinguishing characteristics of place and instead construct a familiar and uniform system of functional spaces built for mobility and productivity. Rather than moving quickly through these spaces however, I have made the decision to slowly and deliberately dwell within them, looking for unforeseen moments of humor, pathos and humanity.
My photographs look at the road as a stage where narratives play out and opposing forces often collide. The boundaries that line these landscapes, whether real or imagined, are examined by looking at the separations between public and private space, privilege and need, the individual and the collective, and the countervailing ideas of home and escape. The resulting compilation of photographs depicts the state of America’s infrastructure as a cultural indicator of its economic, social and environmental circumstances.
Image Captions (from top to bottom)
2. Interstate 75, near Lenox, Georgia, 2014
3. Interstate 5, near Grapevine, California, 2014
4. Interstate 26, near Mars Hill, North Carolina, 2013
4. Parkton, Maryland, 2005
6. Interstate 70, near Salina, Kansas, 2014
7. Barstow, California, 2017
8. Interstate 81, near Woodstock, Virginia, 2012
9.. U.S. Highway 80, between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, 2015
10. Green River, Wyoming, 2013
11. Interstate 83, Baltimore, Maryland, 2014
12. U.S. Highway 85 and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, from El Paso, Texas, 2016
13. Elkview, West Virginia, 2016
14. Near Bozeman, Montana, 2015
15. Lewiston, Idaho, 2015
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All images & text © Joshua Dudley Greer
