Sunday 28 April 2013

[www.keralites.net] America's Landscapes

 

Preserved for the nation: One photographer's painstaking portrait of America's ever-changing landscape

 



For decades celebrated American photographer Carol Highsmith has captured photographs in all 50 states. Her thousands of pictures showcase the huge variety of U.S. habitats and landscapes.
Her incredible body of work is being kept by the Library of Congress, where it can be inspire and inform future generations.
'What's important to me is to record America during my lifetime so that many, many years from now, we can see what we looked like, so we have a sense of who we are,' Highsmith told CBS News.
'Things are changing for the good and the bad, and so it's important to catch that,' Highsmith told Martha Teichner of CBS. 'Now, do I know what will be important? No, I don't. I'm clueless.'
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Here and now: The Jackrabbit Trading Post on Route 66 in Joseph City, Arizona

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Jagged peaks: The Denali National Park in Alaska

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Snack time: Ruth and Wimpy's Lobster stand in Hancock, Maine

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Creator: Photographer Carol M. Highsmith in Monument Valley, the Navajo tribal park in northern Arizona and southern Utah

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Rebuilding: Construction at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan in November 2009

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Prairie: The Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota

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Destruction: A New Orleans house damaged during Hurricane Katrina in 2005

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Drawing attention: A sign for the Lollipop Motel in Wildwood, New Jersey

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Isolated: Monument Valley on the Utah/Arizona border

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Urban grit: A bright mural in Baltimore, Maryland

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Bright lights: An aerial photograph taken at night from a helicopter of the Las Vegas Strip

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Patriotic pop: Advertising and an American flag on Route 66, Seligman, Arizona

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Attractions: Motels and neon art in Las Vegas, Nevada

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History: A mural on Route 66 in Truxton, Arizona

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Self-portrait: Carol Highsmith photographs herself via a broken mirror during the restoration of the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C.

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Bright: Colorful art on the façade of a building in the Mission District, San Francisco, California

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Tough: A saguaro cactus near Tucson, Arizona

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Cornucopia: The Rusty Bolt souvenir store on Route 66 in Seligman, Arizona

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Blue-sky thinking: Clouds and a mural on Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico

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Roots: Kate Carter sitting at a barn door on the farm where Carol Highsmith's grandfather and great grandfather were born

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Go faster stripe: A Corvette car at Hackberry General Store, on Route 66, Hackberry, Arizona

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