Photographer Ferdinando Scianna took these photos of Nashville, Tennessee, in 1986, at least a few years before I ever went there. I can’t remember the first time, really. My grandparents moved to Tennessee when I was a kid, and I have some vague memories of small town country stores and state parks, but not really [...]
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New Mexico in 1990
These photos were taken by German photographer Thomas Hoepker for a book on New Mexico that I can’t track down for the life of me, but oh well. Most of the pictures appear to be available on his agency’s site. Photos with rich colors and insane landscapes that make me daydream about trips to Taos [...]
Documerica Out West
Lately I’ve just been wanting to get out of Atlanta. Over the weekend we escaped to visit my parents in Tennessee and had so much fun going to a Civil War reenactment (kind of—more of a demonstration, but still) and just hanging out with my family and spending time in a place that’s actually pretty [...]
Missy Prince’s Mississippi
I found out about Portland-based photographer Missy Prince via Portland-based designer Jessie DeSue’s Facebook (I guess having a Facebook account is good for something), and instantly fell for her Flickr full of film photos and landscapes taken throughout the US. There are some gorgeous ones of the Pacific Northwest and of the Mojave Desert, but [...]
