[Road Signs]
Typological Album of Highway Signs Across America, 1960s
Photo album; silver prints (191) and chromogenic prints (3)
Most 3 1/2 x 5 inches, some slightly smaller or larger
With manuscript caption to album pages.
With manuscript caption to album pages.
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The story of an anonymous traveler’s excursions across the US in the 1970s is idiosyncratically told through their meticulous documentation of hundreds of highway and exit signs. The result, a...
The story of an anonymous traveler’s excursions across the US in the 1970s is idiosyncratically told through their meticulous documentation of hundreds of highway and exit signs. The result, a purely vernacular study in text and typology, is worthy of a place on the shelf next to any like-minded artist book of the time.