This is a personal look at mid-America from north to south that I shot between 1976 and 1985. At the times I shot these pix, the approximately 1700 miles of US Highway 61 roughly followed the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Minneapolis, then jutted northeast to Duluth and along the western edge of Lake Superior to Thunder Bay, Ontario.
The work documents the people, towns and fields along...
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Greyhound bus at the Missouri/Arkansas border.
Nybo's bar & cafe, Minnesota.
Table, Mississippi.
TV, Arkansas.
Umbrella, Keokuk, Iowa.
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
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... the way in more of a personal sense than a journalistic one.
This is the first installment - part two will run next Friday. There's a lot to look at. - JR
Visit The Third City every day. Randolph Street, camera candy from photojournalist Jon Randolph, runs every Friday. - The Eds.
