Thu March 7, 2019
Gallery Artist Reception - MAIN STR??T: The Lost Dream of Route 66
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The Gallery at Leica Store San Francisco, in collaboration with Contact Press Images, is excited to announce its upcoming exhibition, MAIN STR??T: The Lost Dream of Route 66 by Edward Keating. The exhibition coincides with the release of his latest book with the same title.MAIN STR??T is the result of 11 years of travels along Route 66 — the 2,400 mile stretch between Chicago and Santa Monica.
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 approaching the route as both a journalist and memoirist. Bringing attention to the lives and myths scattered along the stretch of Route 66. As New York Times journalist Charles LeDuff wrote about MAIN STR??T; “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.”
MAIN STR??T is personal mythology, constructed from the artist’s own recollections of the road: Keating's mother grew up in Saint Louis along Route 66 where her father owned the city’s first Ford dealership. In his early 20s, he embarked on a cross-country trip on Route 66, but found himself, rock-bottom, in a broken-down motel in Flagstaff, Arizona. In 2000, he returned to Route 66 as a New York Times staff photographer, traversing all 2,400 miles in three weeks. This exhibition, with photographs from his 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.
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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 approaching the route as both a journalist and memoirist. Bringing attention to the lives and myths scattered along the stretch of Route 66. As New York Times journalist Charles LeDuff wrote about MAIN STR??T; “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.”
MAIN STR??T is personal mythology, constructed from the artist’s own recollections of the road: Keating's mother grew up in Saint Louis along Route 66 where her father owned the city’s first Ford dealership. In his early 20s, he embarked on a cross-country trip on Route 66, but found himself, rock-bottom, in a broken-down motel in Flagstaff, Arizona. In 2000, he returned to Route 66 as a New York Times staff photographer, traversing all 2,400 miles in three weeks. This exhibition, with photographs from his 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.
The Gallery at Leica Store San Francisco, in collaboration with Contact Press Images, is excited to announce its upcoming exhibition, MAIN STR??T: The Lost Dream of Route 66 by Edward Keating. The exhibition coincides with the release of his latest book with the same title.MAIN STR??T is the result of 11 years of travels along Route 66 — the 2,400 mile stretch between Chicago and Santa Monica.
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 approaching the route as both a journalist and memoirist. Bringing attention to the lives and myths scattered along the stretch of Route 66. As New York Times journalist Charles LeDuff wrote about MAIN STR??T; “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.”
MAIN STR??T is personal mythology, constructed from the artist’s own recollections of the road: Keating's mother grew up in Saint Louis along Route 66 where her father owned the city’s first Ford dealership. In his early 20s, he embarked on a cross-country trip on Route 66, but found himself, rock-bottom, in a broken-down motel in Flagstaff, Arizona. In 2000, he returned to Route 66 as a New York Times staff photographer, traversing all 2,400 miles in three weeks. This exhibition, with photographs from his 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.
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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 approaching the route as both a journalist and memoirist. Bringing attention to the lives and myths scattered along the stretch of Route 66. As New York Times journalist Charles LeDuff wrote about MAIN STR??T; “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.”
MAIN STR??T is personal mythology, constructed from the artist’s own recollections of the road: Keating's mother grew up in Saint Louis along Route 66 where her father owned the city’s first Ford dealership. In his early 20s, he embarked on a cross-country trip on Route 66, but found himself, rock-bottom, in a broken-down motel in Flagstaff, Arizona. In 2000, he returned to Route 66 as a New York Times staff photographer, traversing all 2,400 miles in three weeks. This exhibition, with photographs from his 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.
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