David Campany (born 8 October 1967) is a British writer, curator, artist and educator, working mainly with photography.
[13] The book describes "America's relationship with the car, with travel, with consumption, with the rest of the world" and can also be read as "an allegory about news photography.
Or a minor history of car design, or vernacular architecture, or street graphics, or outfits worn by pump attendants.
"[16] Krystal Grow, writing in Time, praised Campany's book as "Exhaustively researched and meticulously edited".
[9] It includes writing by Campany and photographs by Robert Frank (from The Americans), Ed Ruscha, Inge Morath (from The Road to Reno), Garry Winogrand, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Joel Meyerowitz, Jacob Holdt (from American Pictures), Stephen Shore, Bernard Plossu, Victor Burgin (from US 77), Joel Sternfeld, Shin'ya Fujiwara, Alec Soth (from Sleeping by the Mississippi), Todd Hido, Ryan McGinley, Justine Kurland, and Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs (from The Great Unreal).