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AMERICAN ROADSIDE ARCHITECTURE EXHIBIT
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN MARGOLIES

Kherson - Lviv - Kyiv


Kyiv
February 25 - March 5, 2004
Contemporary Art Museum "Soviart"
22a Andriyvskyi Uzviz;
Open 11am-6pm every day but Mondays, entrance is free

The exhibit is a photographic chronicle of the roadside architecture of America during the 1940s and 1950s, when gas stations, restaurants and hotels were built in fanciful shapes to attract the attention of passing automobiles. The photographs represent an interesting era of American history, when the invention and mass production of the automobile transformed the lives and landscape of the United States.

Architectural historian John Margolies spent 25 years criss-crossing the country to document this vanishing tradition in American commerce. His work has been collected by the State Department for a special exhibition that will tour Europe in 2004. Ukraine is the first stop of this exhibition on its tour of Europe.

American Roadside Architecture has been organized by the Cultural Programs Division of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. The exhibition is presented through the auspices of United States Embassies and Consulates General around the world.

JOHN MARGOLIES’ photographic research has been funded in part by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a U.S. government agency. In 2003, the Alicia Patterson Foundation named Mr. Margolies a Josephine Patterson Albright Fellow in Photojournalism.

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