Wright Morris, “Gano” Grain Elevator, Kinsley, Kansas, 1940 © Estate of Wright Morris
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01/24/2020 - 04/05/2020

Foam Fotografiemuseum 
Keizersgracht 609 
 
1017 DS Amsterdam

 

 
Wright Morris (1910-1998) set out to capture “what it is to be an American”. His images betray a concern to inanimate objects, everyday things that characterised rural and small-town American life in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Morris captured scenes that revealed a largely invisible, slowly disappearing life as it was lived in his native state Nebraska and wherever else his wanderings in the American countryside took him.