Photographer uses Kickstarter campaign to help publish new Route 66 book

Documentary photographer Jeff Sonnabend of Arkansas recently completed a book, “The Route 66 Primer: An Uncropped View of the Mother Road,” and he’s launched an online fundraising campaign to help publish it.

Sonnabend shot his photos in 2020, and the book aims to be a sort of time capsule of Route 66 near the current day.

More, including a listing of each of the more than 250 locations documented, can be found on The Route 66 Primer website.

Here’s the campaign, via Kickstarter:

At last check, Sonnabend is more than one-third of the way to his $8,500 funding goal.

Contributors to the campaign will receive a signed, first-edition copy of the book, limited (or open) edition fine art prints from the project or other Route 66 photography, depending on the level of support.

Axios recently published a story about his forthcoming book.

Another photographer, Darren Kennedy of Ireland, also is organizing an online fundraiser for a book he’s going to publish so he can send the proceeds to a children’s hospital. He’s traveling Route 66 this month for the project.

(Image of the cover of “The Route 66 Primer: An Uncropped View of the Mother Road” courtesy of the author)

One thought on “Photographer uses Kickstarter campaign to help publish new Route 66 book

  1. At the end did he say Route 66 is Dead? I do not think folks from all across the world come to see what he is trying to publish.

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