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February Issue 2007
University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, Features Works by James Henderson at McKissick
Highway
US 1, the asphalt ribbon that stretches from Maine to Florida,
is the subject of the exhibit, A Road Less Taken: Photographs
by James Henderson, on view at McKissick Museum at the University
of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, through Mar. 24, 2007. The
exhibition features color and black-and-white photographs that
capture the essence of each region along this historic highway,
images rarely seen by travelers of superhighways.
Henderson, who grew up near the highway, says the project is really an intersection of his college degree, media arts, and wonder. "In the everydayness of a town's existence, there lives the spectacular," Henderson wrote in his journal about his travels along the 2,390-mile journey that he made seven times between the fall of 1997 and 2001.
Henderson set out to show through his photographs a glimpse of America's lost treasures. What he discovered was history unfolding, with remnants of the past interspersed with the present.
"It's awfully easy to adjust to our own environs, but we adjust to the point where we completely ignore the important details that make our place special," said Henderson. "As a photographer, it is a requirement to not overlook those details, to find the detail that identifies a place."
US 1 was conceived in 1926 to provide Atlantic coast travelers an uninterrupted route stretching from the Canadian border to the tip of Florida. The last stretch was paved in Cheraw, SC, 75 years ago. Interstate 95 has since become the main artery for travel between North and South.
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at 803/777-7251 or visit (www.cla.sc.edu/MCKS/).
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