ON THE ROAD TOO

PART ONE, USA 2007

This book and exhibition project is an extended, raw, uncensored, and uncommon visual report and study of America in autumn 2007 seen 19 days in a row, during a car-trip across America. Unique is that Peter Spaans always photographed from the car. One of the stories of this trip is the transformation of the landscape by successive generations of Americans. As the photographs depict, each generation leaves both their masterpieces and their ruins behind. Creative destruction is heralded as the vital energy of American capitalism. In 2012 a second trip is planned for this project.