Aided by his handy GPS receiver, Bruce Myren takes a photo at every longitudinal intersection with the 40th parallel across the country.
The latitude line N 40° 00' 00"cuts the United States in half, roughly speaking, passing through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California, and serving as the border between Nebraska and Kansas along the way. The parallel intersects with a full longitudinal degree every 53 miles, creating 52 cartographically significant grid points from coast to coast, each delineating a broom-closet-sized patch of land of about 20 square feet. For the last 20 years, at these unique spots, Bruce Myren has slowly and methodically documented the country in photographs.
Many of the photographs show fields and forests. A handful show farms and small towns. One put Myren in the rough on a golf course. But they’re all America as it exists along the 40th parallel, scenes at once totally precise and utterly arbitrary.
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