U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott) by Anna Fox and Karen Knorr
Opening at Les Rencontres d’Arles
Palais de l’Archevêché
7 July–5 October 2025
Plus upcoming book signings, exhibition tour and artist talk
Karen Knorr and Anna Fox’s U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott) opens next week at Les Rencontres d’Arles! It will be an exciting and busy launch week, with an exhibition tour, artist talk, plus two book signings. Click ‘Read More’ to see full event details.
Following in the tracks of Berenice Abbott and her colleague/assistant Damon Gadd (also accompanied by Sara Gadd), Karen Knorr and Anna Fox set out in 2016 to start a record of contemporary life along U.S. Route 1 during the age of Trump. Along the way Fox and Knorr searched for a sense of what is happening today and how that differs from what Abbott and Gadd found. Using their iPhones, digital SLRs and a Phase One medium format camera, they photographed small towns, people, drugstores, cafes, diners, hotels, motels, farms, factories, street signs and advertisements. From 2016 – 2024, Fox and Knorr traversed the U.S. Route, considering current environmental debate and societal discontent created by the increasing disenchantment of working Americans with their governance and elites.
Upcoming Events
Exhibition Tour
With Anna Fox, Karen Knorr and curator Gaëlle Morel.
Palais de l’Archevêché, Arles
Wednesday 9 July 2025
4:30 – 5:30 pm
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Artist Talk
Gaze Talk: Women’s Perspectives
Cour Fanton, Arles
Thursday 10 July 2025
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Led by Laura Lafon Cadilhac, artistic director of Gaze, the magazine of female perspectives. With photographers Anna Fox and Karen Knorr, Erica Lennard and Ventura Profana.
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Book Signings:
U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott)
Published by Trolley Books
Librarie du Palais, Arles
Thursday 10 July 2025
3 – 4 pm
The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Thursday 24 July 2025
6 – 8 pm
Available now at the special price of £40 until 24 July. Click here to pre-order a signed copy.
Book Signing:
Fables and Other Stories
Published by Filigranes Éditions with the support of the Centre d’art contemporain de la Matmut
Collège Saint-Charle, Arles
Friday 11 July 2025
5:30 – 7:30 pm
Click here to order.