Wolfsonian-FIU Open House: North and South

Friday, June 9th from 10am-9pm, enjoy The Wolfsonian’s newest shows, North and South: Berenice Abbott’s U.S. Route 1 and its contemporary complement The Long Road to Now! The day includes free admission, happy hour specials in the Wolf Café after 4pm, and tours (beginning at 2pm and 6pm) led by assistant curator Whitney Richardson. Free and open to the public.

North and South: Berenice Abbott’s U.S. Route 1
In 1954, photographer Berenice Abbott journeyed along the length of U.S. Route 1, capturing the road, its towns, and inhabitants. From Florida motels made from buses to Maine potato farmers, Abbott memorialized communities up and down the East Coast. During the trip, Abbott shot more than four hundred 8×10-inch photographs, and over two thousand smaller images using her Rolleiflex camera, representing her largest portfolio of photographs devoted to a single subject. North and South will bring together a selection of 50 works from this series to present a singular visual summary of American life during the mid-1950s. The exhibition is organized by the Syracuse University Art Collection and presented in tandem with The Long Road to Now: Digital Photos Inspired by Berenice Abbott’s Road Trip, an installation of contemporary photography developed in partnership with Instagram forum #JJCommunity. #route1photos