Roger Eberhard - Wilted Country

In the years following World War II, the National Highway System began to expand into the American West, improving trade and bringing with it tourists from the East Coast. Along these new thoroughfares grew several small communities hoping to cash in on this sudden influx. By century’s end, however, many of these upstart communities had failed, and huge numbers of their residents had left in search of another livelihood.

Wilted Country collects the best of Eberhard’s images in a single volume and complements them with critical essays on the artist’s craft by Anthony Bannon, the director of the George Eastman House and Benedict Wells, a young German novelist.