Join us for the opening reception on June 8, 2024, from 6 to 9pm, to experience "MAIN STREET: The Lost Dream of Route 66" and celebrate the enduring legacy of Edward Keating's remarkable photography.

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The Lost Dream of Route 66 Photographs by Edward Keating
MAIN STREET is the result of 11 years of travels along Route 66 — the 2,400-mile stretch between Chicago and Santa Monica. Called the “mother road” in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Route 66 has inspired countless artists and writers, including Andy Warhol and Jack Kerouac. Following the path of migrant farmers and others, Keating has ventured westward and back along Route 66, documenting the lives of Americans along the way.

Edward Keating had served as a photojournalist for nearly 40 years for such publications as New York Times, Forbes and Business Week. In 2001, Keating received the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, as well as the John Faber Award for International Reporting, Overseas Press Club, for his series of photographs on the September 11 attacks. He additionally shared the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with New York Times staff for the series, “How Race is Lived in America,” and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for the 1997 series “Vows,” co-authored with Lois Smith Brady. In 2003, Keating joined Contact Press Images photography agency. MAIN STREET was Keating’s sixth monograph. Tragically, Keating died of brain cancer in Sept 2021 believed to have been contracted as a result of his exposure to toxic materials at Ground Zero in the days after 9/11. He was 65 years of age.