I'm pleased to see that there are still books being published with black and white photos and in the case of Florence Montmare's work there are overtones of Frank's The Americans. This is her first monograph with photos taken as she traveled seven thousand miles in a round trip across the US.
The sixty-seven photos are all exteriors of what can be seen from the highway, especially man-made activity combined with natural landscape shots. The book has another dimension though because mixed in with the highway photos there are sixty-one portraits of people Montmare met on her travels. Most of these have a quote about their lives next to their photo.
I'm not convinced that the portraits work in the book's editorial design. They vary in how much of the person is shown and look rather bland. If they had been smaller headshots and connected typographically to their quotes I think it would have made the spreads more visually interesting.
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Amazon.com: Florence Montmare: America Series: 9788862088060: Montmare, Florence, Samore, Sam: Books
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