This is the new (and temporary) home of the documentary project The Dead Highway - Images from the Lincoln Highway. Here is a brief description of the project so far.
The aim of The Dead Highway is to document life along the Lincoln Highway, a once historic road that was built to bridge the gap between New York City and San Francisco. The completed project will thoroughly examine the dichotomy of rural America as seen from this coast-to-coast highway. The work deals with affluence and poverty; beauty and ugliness; cities and farms; success and failure, new and old, and everything in between. Providing more questions than answers, these photographs express the central themes of unity and disunity, and propose the overarching question: are we coming together or falling apart? In the purest sense of the classic documentarian, I am not interested in reconciling these views of America, but merely to record them. In doing so I hope the work allows the viewer to examine the truths in each image without being seduced by purely scenic views. This on-going body of work currently focuses on the midwestern section of the Lincoln Highway. With help from the Albert P. Weisman Grant and Columbia College Chicago, the project will continue to grow and serve as a document of the entire highway from Times Square, NY all the way to San Francisco, CA.
Expect to see plenty of updates from the road via this blog in the form of new images and stories along the Lincoln Highway.
-Dan Jarvis
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