Publisher/Steidl

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"Traffic Sunset Park Continental Divide" is a collection of works by American photographer Henry Wessel (1942-2018). Wessel is famous for his black-and-white works capturing the landscapes and everyday scenes of the American West, California and Arizona. The "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" exhibition held at the George Eastman House in 1975 was a valuable exhibition that left a mark on the photography world, showing a new trend in photography that objectively records landscapes transformed by humans. It was Wessel who attracted attention by being exhibited alongside Robert Adams and Lewis Bolz. He also taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1973 to 2014, and has been committed to nurturing many young photographers. This book is a trilogy, as the title suggests. The works include snapshots captured during rush hour while commuting by car from Richmond to California in the 1980s, eerie scenes photographed at night in working-class residential areas of Santa Monica in the 1990s, and landscapes ranging from the Rocky Mountains to the desert regions of the American West, all of which encapsulate the essence of the post-war American road trip.