Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast, Photographs along Route 1

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In a new body of work, a critically acclaimed photographer retraces Berenice Abbott's 1954 photographic journey along the Eastern Seaboard, documenting dislocation, loss, and a shifting American dream.

In 1954, American photographer Berenice Abbott set out to document the historic US Route 1, already predicting seismic changes to small towns and major cities along the route brought by the rapidly expanding Interstate Highway System. Spanning all thirteen original colonies and beyond-from Fort Kent, Maine, to Key West, Florida-US Route 1 formed over the course of three hundred years from connecting sections of what was once known as the Atlantic Highway. Inspired by Abbott's acute and poetic observations on life along Route 1 and on the seventieth anniversary of her project, Florida-based photographer Anastasia Samoylova ventures on her own journey to revisit those communities forever transformed by the interstate. Working in color and black and white, Samoylova provides a closer look at the American landscape irreversibly altered by the unrelenting expansion of industry, commerce, and development, as well as the displacement and tenacity of people and wildlife.

Copublished by Aperture and Norton Museum of Art.

Author Bio

Anastasia Samoylova (born in Moscow, 1984) is a Miami-based photographer with three critically acclaimed books: FloodZone (2019), Floridas (2022), and Image Cities (2023), published in conjunction with her winning the inaugural KBr Photo Award. Aruna DSouza is a writer and critic based in New York. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times and 4Columns, where she is a member of the editorial advisory board. Her writing has also been published by the Wall Street Journal, ArtNews, Garage, Art Practical, CNN.com, Bookforum, Frieze, Momus, and Art in America. Lauren Richman is the William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, and has held curatorial and research roles at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth; and Art Institute of Chicago. She earned her PhD and MA in art history from Southern Methodist University and holds a BA in art history from Vanderbilt University.