Main Street: The Lost Dream of Route 66 - Photgraphs by Edward Keating

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Edward Keating

EDWARD KEATING served as a photojournalist for nearly 40 years for such publications as the New York Times, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Time Magazine. In 2001, Keating received the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, as well as the John Faber Award for International Reporting, Overseas Press Club, for his series of photographs on the September 11 attacks. He additionally shared the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with the New York Times staff for the series, “How Race is Lived in America,” and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for the 1997 series “Vows,” co-authored with Lois Smith Brady. In 2003, Keating joined Contact Press Images photography agency. MAIN STREET was Keating’s sixth monograph.

Keating’s work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City and The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. His one-person exhibitions include: The Camera Club of New York, The Leica Gallery-New York, and at Visa Pour l’image in Perpignan, France. In 2008, Keating exhibited his collection “New York” alongside Robert Frank’s “The Americans” at The Pingyao International Photography Festival in Pingyao, China, and his collection on Route 66 was featured at Bursa Fotofest in Bursa, Turkey, in 2011.

Tragically, Keating died of cancer in Sept 2021, contracted as a result of his long exposure to toxic materials at Ground Zero in the days after 9/11. He was 65.