Dorothea Lange
Ansel Adams
Ed Ruscha
Henry Wessel
Robert Adams
William Gedney
George Tice
William Christenberry
Lee Friedlander
William Eggleston
Stephen Shore
Tod Papageorge
Joel Meyerowitz
Elaine Mayes
Martin Parr
Alec Soth
Brian Ulrich
Amy Stein
Zoe Strauss
9 comments:
I have been photographing for more than 40 years now, and old and abandoned gas stations have always drawn my attention. Here is one I posted on my blog a few weeks ago:
http://pitchertaker.blogspot.com/2008/07/day-after-yesterday.html
Thanks for posting all the images from all those known photographers. I can use it in my classroom.
P'taker
this entire set blows my mind...so eerie for one reason or another. sad, for those same reasons.
Fascinating stuff. You're a scholar for finding and collecting them and a gentleman for posting them. I'm off to find more work by Ulrich, Strauss and Mayes.
Thank you.
My fave is Walker Evan's "American Gas."
Although this isn't meant to be a comprehensive survey, I did feel a bit weird leaving Evans out since he was a pioneer of this style. But I couldn't find a good version of "American Gas" online or any other gas station work by him. All the photos shown here are ones I found through various online searches, no scans.
I plan to make this a regular feature and am in the process of putting together another grouping. I'm sure that one too will leave out some fitting images.
Amazing set. Going to post a link to this page. Thanks!
Robert Frank's "save gas" picture is also a notable omission.
I don't know if that was included on a later post.
That was the picture that started off the whole chain, written about just before this post:
http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2008/09/that-gasoline-picture.html
Great set, really. And if I may point out another important omission, there is Route 66 by Andreas Feininger.
Gianni M.
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