Route 66 motel. 1973 ©John Schott. Re-post from June, 2017.
By Paul Goldfinger, Photography Editor @Blogfinger.net. 2017
In 1973, photographer John Schott took a road trip photographing motels along Route 66. It reminds me of the famous 1958 road trip that Robert Frank , a Swiss national, took to produce his book “The Americans.”
Schott’s series on Route 66 motels is currently (2017) on exhibit at the Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla, California. Schott is also is a film maker and he was the executive producer of a PBS series on photography.
Photograph Magazine said this, “Schott made these photographs in what I am characterizing as intimate space. He engaged with the physical spaces in and around the motels, becoming attuned to how bodies (including his own) behaved in those spaces, and alert to the way motels are at once public, social, personal, and intimate.”
ELVIS PRESLEY (recorded in 1956)