Think of the quirky buildings you pass every day but whose quiet beauty you take for granted--the moviehouses, juke joints, soda fountains, barbershops, roadside diners, and storefront churches. You don't miss them until they're gone. As suburban sprawl and strip malls conquer the country, these vestiges of a lost way of life are falling under the wrecking ball. Here the photographer Michael Eastman has made the ultimate road trip, crisscrossing the nation dozens of times, to capture these buildings on film before they vanish. These dreamy images call us to question what we choose to let go...
Think of the quirky buildings you pass every day but whose quiet beauty you take for granted--the moviehouses, juke joints, soda fountains, barbershop...