Hi Amy,

The closest comparison would probably be to Robert Frank's The Americans, which originally appeared with a preface by Kerouac.  The text is not as central as in the case of the Ruscha book, but it's one of the great photo books of the twentieth century. 

Other classics:
-James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a "road" story of a politically complex nature. 
-Dorothea Lange and her husband Paul Taylor, American Exodus: a Record of Human Erosion which combines photographs with transcripts of oral interviews.
-Lee Friedlander, America by Car.


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Good afternoon,

 

I hope those of you with strong book arts and/or photography backgrounds can help me with this query. A student is writing a paper on the Ed Ruscha edition of On the Road and is looking for works of a similar nature for comparison. Do you know of any titles of literary works that deal with the concept of the road/on the road that are illustrated with photographs?

 

Many thanks in advance,

Amy

 

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The Graduate Center

City University of New York

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