Magnum: Postcards From America

I’ve been looking at Magnum photographs of America—decades of work by photographers who had the patience to wait in diners, on highways, in small towns where nothing was happening. What stays with me is the lack of romance in these images. They’re not trying to say anything grand about the American character or the national soul. They’re just documenting light, boredom, solitude, people moving through spaces. I think that’s why I keep coming back to them—they got something true about scale and loneliness that you don’t forget once you’ve seen it.