Carol M. Highsmith

born 1946 · United States · 399 photographs

American photographer documenting the United States — its buildings, main streets, landscapes and roadside vernacular — in rich color, state by state. She has donated her life's work to the Library of Congress copyright-free, one of the largest one-photographer gifts in the Library's history.

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Years

2000s – 2010s

Where

Indiana · New York (state) · Ohio

Tone

Almost all colour

Often

Parking lots · Skyscrapers · Office buildings · Facades

[Great Hall. Detail of cherub representing America and Africa on Grand staircase by Philip Martiny. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

Interior grill detail, James T. Foley U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Albany, New York

[Great Hall. View of grend staircase and bronze statue of female figure on newel post holding a torch of electric light. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.]

A bright-white barn in Putnam County, Indiana

Aerial view of Indianapolis, Indiana, with a focus on the Indiana State House, as the state's capitol building is known

Screens outside the Miller House, considered a modern-architecure gem designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and completed in 1957 in Columbus, a south-central Indiana city that has become a destination for fine art and architecture lovers

Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division