The Counterpoint
By John Sanderson
Explorers, Egmont Key, Florida. All images © John Sanderson
Artist: John Sanderson
Project: National Character
Description: Photographer John Sanderson’s work acknowledges the loss of regional town flair while looking for that most primordial of American traits: aspirationalism. The counterpoint between personality and place, portrait and landscape underpin much of what Sanderson admits are travel memories of his younger days, when his vantage was from the passenger seat of his father’s pick-up.
Drive-In, Eden, Alabama
Explorers, Egmont Key, Florida
Majestic, Stonewall Jackson School, North Carolina
Near Rocky Gap, West Virginia
Southern Railway Locomotive, Spencer, North Carolina
Mercer Mall, West Virginia
Modern Living, Louisville, Kentucky
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Pete and his Master, Key West, Florida
Cinderblock Mansion, Craig Key, Florida
One Room Country Shack, West Virginia
Casa Marina, Key West, Florida
West Martello Tower, Key West, Florida
Stray Cat, Key West, Florida
Palm, Treasure Island, Florida
Self-portrait with pick-up truck, Pensacola, Florida
Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, Alabama
Tampa, Florida
NA Tower, Martinsburg, West Virginia
Our Lady of the Pines, Silver Lake, West Virginia
Stoney, Robertsdale, Alabama
Battleship and Artillery, Mobile, Alabama