Driving a Table Down

"On a September day, Barry Phipps left Iowa to drive a table from his parents' house in southern Missouri, twelve hundred miles with his mother to his Aunt Diane's house near Sarasota, Florida, where they stayed a few days and then drove back. This photo collection from the drive is a momentary observation of an America in flux, defined through a culture of layered accumulations. With Phipps's keen eye, the present is never uniformly present tense, as he reflects on the commodity and function of nostalgia; post and past tourism; the increasing improbability of authenticity in an era of replication; of what is destroyed, changed, salvaged, mined, or pounced upon; and what is spared"--