Overview
Rob Amberg's examination of the construction of a nine-mile section of Interstate 26 is a moving study of the effect of road building on landscape and culture. In 1994, Amberg began documenting the progress of the largest earth moving project in state history through the most rural and rugged reaches of Madison County, North Carolina. Using oral histories, narrative writing, and photographs, The New Road explores the inherent tensions and contradictions faced by an Appalachian community trying to balance progress and preservation.
Full Product Details
Author: Rob Amberg
Publisher: Center for American Places,US
Imprint: Center for American Places,US
Dimensions:
Width: 24.10cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 1.166kg
ISBN: 9781930066670
ISBN 10: 1930066678
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 15 January 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
The road may be our most shared place and being on the road our most common experience. In The New Road, Rob Amberg not only chronicles the history, symbolism, and impact of a new interstate highway in the North Carolina mountains, but also offers us a way to understand what lies beneath and beside the pavement on which we so frequently travel. With his profound photographs, insightful writing, and wide-range of oral history interviews, Amberg presents a full and complex picture of the I-26 corridor. Like the road it chronicles, this book cuts a fresh, new path in documentary literature. It is a work of great imagination, detail, and insight. --Tom Rankin, Director of the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University<br>
The road may be our most shared place and being on the road our most common experience. In The New Road , Rob Amberg not only chronicles the history, symbolism, and impact of a new interstate highway in the North Carolina mountains, but also offers us a way to understand what lies beneath and beside the pavement on which we so frequently travel. With his profound photographs, insightful writing, and wide-range of oral history interviews, Amberg presents a full and complex picture of the I-26 corridor. Like the road it chronicles, this book cuts a fresh, new path in documentary literature. It is a work of great imagination, detail, and insight. --Tom Rankin, Director of the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University<br>
Author Information
Rob Amberg is a photographer from Madison County, North Carolina. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Center for Documentary Studies, and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His first book, Sodom Laurel Album, received the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award of the Western North Carolina Historical Association. Find out more about Amberg and his work at www.robamberg.com.
