{"id":129549,"date":"2025-11-12T17:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/129549\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:51:10","slug":"anastasia-samoylovas-2000-mile-journey-across-america-retraces-photography-greats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/129549\/","title":{"rendered":"Anastasia Samoylova’s 2,000 Mile Journey Across America Retraces Photography Greats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Anastasia Samoylova, Fifth-Generation Farmer, Garysburg, North Carolina, 2024; from Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast (Aperture, 2025). \u00a9 2025 Anastasia Samoylova <\/p>\n

Inspired by great artists before her, Russian-American Anastasia Samoylova took a photographic journey along the historic U.S. Route 1 \u2014 beginning in her home state of Florida and ending in Maine. <\/p>\n

In 1954, the American photographer Berenice Abbott set out to document the historic US Route 1, predicting seismic changes to small towns and major cities along the road brought by the rapidly expanding Interstate Highway System. Inspired by Abbott\u2019s acute and poetic observations of life along Route 1, Samoylova retraced Abbott\u2019s trip seventy years later. <\/p>\n

Samoylova\u2019s photographs explore the enduring impact of Route 1 as a corridor of commerce, migration, and myth, revealing how the American landscape continues to be shaped by infrastructure, ideology, and illusion. The trip resulted in the monograph Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast <\/a><\/p>\n

\"Older<\/a>Anastasia Samoylova, Woman in Pink Hat, Homestead, Florida, 2025; from Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast (Aperture, 2025). \u00a9 2025 Anastasia Samoylova \"A<\/a>Anastasia Samoylova, Jesus Saves, Charleston, South Carolina, 2020; from Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast (Aperture, 2025). \u00a9 2025 Anastasia Samoylova \"Two<\/a>Anastasia Samoylova, Two Cars, East Harlem, New York, 2024; from Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast (Aperture, 2025). \u00a9 2025 Anastasia Samoylova
\n \"Weathered,<\/a>Anastasia Samoylova, House by Water, Lubec, Maine, 2024; from Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast (Aperture, 2025). \u00a9 2025 Anastasia Samoylova \"A<\/a>U.S. Route One. | Wikipedia <\/p>\n

Samoylova\u2019s journey as an artist runs parallel to that of Robert Frank, whose legendary book, The Americans<\/a>, defined a new visual language of cultural critique and disillusionment. Like Frank, Samoylova immigrated to the United States at the age of 23, drawn to the contradictions and promises of American life.<\/p>\n

Atlantic Coast picks up Frank\u2019s visual thread in a country further fragmented by environmental crisis, political nostalgia, and unchecked development, adding a distinctive chapter to a storied lineage of photographers.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Anastasia Samoylova, House Flag, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2024; from Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast (Aperture, 2025). \u00a9 2025 Anastasia Samoylova \"A<\/a>Anastasia Samoylova, Historic Reenactor, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2024; from Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast (Aperture, 2025). \u00a9 2025 Anastasia Samoylova \"A<\/a>Anastasia Samoylova, Fireworks, Fort Knox, Prospect, Maine, 2024; from Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast (Aperture, 2025). \u00a9 2025 Anastasia Samoylova
\n \"A<\/a>Anastasia Samoylova, Covered Car, Waycross, Georgia, 2024; from Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast (Aperture, 2025). \u00a9 2025 Anastasia Samoylova \"A<\/a>Front cover of Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast (Aperture, 2025); cover image: Anastasia Samoylova, Reflection in Black Thunderbird, Palm Beach, Florida, 2024. \u00a9 2025 Anastasia Samoylova <\/p>\n

Samoylova works in the intersections of environmentalism, consumerism, politics, and the picturesque. The book features vibrant color and black-and-white photographs that draw on the visual vernacular of tourism, advertising, and the road trip itself.<\/p>\n

Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast <\/a>is published by Aperture and will be released on November 18, 2025; $65. The release coincides with two of Samoylova\u2019s solo exhibitions of the same title opening at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach<\/a>, FL on November 15 as well as an exhibition at Dot Fiftyone Gallery in Miami<\/a>, FL opening on November 30. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anastasia Samoylova, Fifth-Generation Farmer, Garysburg, North Carolina, 2024; from Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast (Aperture, 2025). \u00a9 2025 Anastasia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3760,81336,437,434,435,436,43363,81337,81338,438,146,1210,85,46,81339,81340],"class_list":{"0":"post-129549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-anastasiasamoylova","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-atlantic","15":"tag-atlanticcoast","16":"tag-bereniceabbott","17":"tag-design","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-florida","20":"tag-il","21":"tag-israel","22":"tag-robertfrank","23":"tag-theamericans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}