Iowa, from the series "Highway 61", 2011-18.Tilt the eye upward, as Lange does here, and the whole Iowa roadside reorganizes itself around the sky.
Memphis, from the series "Highway 61", 2011-18.Grain is the first thing the night gives up here.
Minnesota, from the series "Highway 61", 2011-18.A county fairground in Minnesota, where the food stand has eaten the entire frame.
Minnesota, from the series "Highway 61", 2011-18.Set this beside the bathers of Eakins or the lakeside boys of the old physique annuals and you feel the same heat coming off it, the same frank pleasure in young flesh stacked against summer light.
Minnesota, from the series "Highway 61", 2011-18.The grays here do most of the work. Trodden summer grass, bright where the sun hits the blades and going to soft pewter in the shade, fills the lower half; behind the sleepers stands a painted wooden…
Minnesota, from the series "Highway 61", 2011-18.You know the place before you've ever been there: a low motel set back from the road, a stand of dark pines crowding the building, and out front a sign that announces "61 MOTEL" in fat letters…
Minnesota, from the series, "Highway 61", 2011-18.A snow road runs away from the bottom left corner with a set of tyre tracks down it.
Minnesota, from the series, "Highway 61", 2011-18.Where does one stand to make a slide look like this?
Minnesota, from the series, "Highway 61", 2011-18.What the photograph won't tell me is her face.
Minnesota, from the series, "Highway 61", 2011-18.The ice has taken the bench whole. It hangs in fringed stalactites from the back slats, swells into a glassy boot around each leg, and fuses the seat to the cobbled shore so the thing reads less as…
Mississippi, from the series "Highway 61", 2011-18.What does a road photograph promise that it never keeps?
Mississippi, from the series, "Highway 61", 2011-18.Someone has already left. That is the event the photograph records — not a departure caught in the act, but its aftermath, the room some hours or years after the last person carried out what they…
Missouri, from the series "Highway 61", 2011-18.Somewhere in Missouri, a diner has been pinned to silver.
New Orleans, from the series, "Highway 61", 2011-18.Somewhere behind this man a building is burning, and he has decided it has nothing to do with him.
Wisconson, from the series "Highway 61", 2011-18.A country announces itself in its hand-lettered signs.