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Book signings:
Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe, 5-7pm June 24
Collected Works, Santa Fe, NM October 7, 6pm
Briscoe Center, Austin TX, October 11

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THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY

By Joan Myers
with a short story by William deBuys

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Hardcover
168 pages, 12 x 9.5, 86 photographs
ISBN: 978-1-953480-15-6
Available late June 2022


Joan Myers's powerful photographs of the vernacular landscape of the rural West evoke comparisons to the classic images made by the WPA photographers during the Great Depression. If rural westerners in the 1930s felt the American dream eluded them, that same sense of loss and despair also haunts these pictures made during the second decade of the 21st century; the old myth of frontier possibilities a false but enduring taunt that no longer offers a roadmap for modern life. – Martha A. Sandweiss Author, "Print the Legend: Photography and the American West"

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