Photographer Rick Yenofsky of Arcadia, Calif., will display images of the Mother Road in Southern California with "Getting There - Old Places on Route 66, Planes, Trains, Ships & Automobiles: Modern and Historic" at Colonnade Art Gallery and Studio in Pasadena. The exhibit starts March 3. The Pasadena Star-News reports: Yenofsky traveled from downtown Los Angeles through … Continue reading Route 66 photo exhibit soon will open in Pasadena
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Tulsa photo store will host Route 66 exhibit
Apertures, a photography store in Tulsa, is hosting a "Photographing the Mother Road: A Trip Down Route 66" exhibit starting Friday. The opening reception for the event will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday. Apertures President Natalie Green wrote on the Apertures website: On October 15, 2011 at 7:30 a.m., 17 photographers loaded a … Continue reading Tulsa photo store will host Route 66 exhibit
Kickstarter campaign begun for U.S. 40 book
Frank Brusca, a longtime researcher of U.S. 40, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help finish a book about the historic highway he's been working on for decades. This is a little off-topic, but Route 66 fans often are fans of other historic highways, including U.S. 40, aka the National Road. Brusca also has inspired … Continue reading Kickstarter campaign begun for U.S. 40 book
Time-lapse road trip
If you've got time to kill, you can watch this 76-minute video by Chris Gillham using time-lapse photography of a Route 66 trip from St. Louis to Santa Monica, then St. Louis to Chicago, in a 1965 Pontiac Parisienne convertible. The camera he mounted shot an image every 10 seconds. The Route 66 trip was … Continue reading Time-lapse road trip
A Route 66 app that takes you there … with limits
Italian photographer Carlo Pinasco recently launched an application, "Image Route 66," for iPads, iTouches, and iPhones that contains more than 200 high-resolution images from a Route 66 road trip he took in May. With it, you can take a virtual trip down the Mother Road. But the most intriguing part of the app is each photograph … Continue reading A Route 66 app that takes you there … with limits
Book review: “Polaroid Photos from Route 66”
Polaroid photography was immensely popular decades ago, but corporation that made it eventually stopped its production as its use faded. But a small but enthusiastic group continues to keep the original Polaroid format alive because of its unique look and unpredictable qualities. If that description seems to match the boom, bust, and small revival of … Continue reading Book review: “Polaroid Photos from Route 66”
It’s a small world after all
Every time you think you've seen everything regarding photography on Route 66, someone comes up with a new twist. The latest is Kurt and Edwige Moses of St. Paul, Minn. The husband-and-wife team recently created a fine-art photo project titled "Un Petit Monde," which translates from French to "A Small World." He photographs small HO scale train figures … Continue reading It’s a small world after all
On the road with a stuffed doll
Today, I received an email from a Spaniard taking in Route 66 with Stabri, a stuffed doll that travels "hand to hand" around the globe, documented by photos and video posted on the Internet. As of Sunday, Stabri and his companions were in Joplin, Mo. Here's another photo of Stabri at Ambler's Texaco Station in Dwight, … Continue reading On the road with a stuffed doll
Road journal
Photographer Nick Brazinsky traveled the Mother Road from Chicago to Santa Monica. This well-conceived slide show is the result. https://vimeo.com/31855205
New Route 66 photos site launched
Photographer Frank Gifford has launched a rt66pix.com site that not only is selling his images, but also merchandise that contains those images. The site contains more than 500 images, "and more images are being added." Gifford (who is no relation to the NFL Hall of Famer and broadcaster by the same name) said in a … Continue reading New Route 66 photos site launched