Jessica Lange’s Photographs Capture Life and Loneliness on Highway 61

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A hauntingly beautiful study of Highway 61, by JessicaLange 📸

, Lange takes us along for a ride, creating a timeless portrait of America that evokes the work of Robert Frank. A quiet, careful observation of the human condition, Lange’s photographs reveal a sense of solidarity among the working class, recognising that they built this country from the ground up.

Lange easily immerses herself in the milieu, people gladly posing for a photograph. Yet there is a melancholy that pervades the work, a quiet longing for connection that underscores the artist’s simple dedication at the beginning of the book. “For Sam,” Lange writes to her husband, Sam Shepard, who died in 2017. It’s a moment of devotion that finds its way into every image she makes, infusing her photographs with a powerful sense of love, hope, and faith.

Then she writes: “I felt that loneliness as a child and I feel it even more acutely now. Long stretches of 61 are empty, forlorn, as if in mourning for what has gone missing – the hometowns, the neighbourhoods, family farms, factories, and mills... Some [people] remain, perhaps yearning for that more vibrant past but reluctant to abandon the place they call home.” Lange, quite simply, seems at peace when she is among her own.

 

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