Fine-art photographer Tom Federbar, who’s been capturing images for more than 50 years, including working with Ansel Adams, soon will publish a book on his Route 66 photographs, reports the Downey (Calif.) Patriot.
After 43 years in the advertising photography business, Ferderbar sold Ferderbar Studios, Inc. in 1997, and returned to his first love – fine art photography. He just completed a book of photographs on Route 66.
According to one of his Web sites, Federbar has been taking photos of Route 66 since 1980:
A major goal of my site is to offer these archival quality Route 66 photographs at very affordable prices so that those who would like prints can afford them. A second major goal is, along with other photographers, to visually preserve the memory of Route 66 for future generations.
My first trip along Route 66 came in 1947, when as a youth I made my first trip west.I made photographs at that time which appear as small icons in the upper right part of the headings of some sections of my site. For historical reasons, a few of them may also appear in a book I’m producing on Route 66. My work reflects a melancholic response to the decaying remnants of that once grand route from Chicago to Santa Monica – it appears to me that even as they deteriorate, both the structures and roadways assert a defiant resistance to death. Nevertheless however, all things do die, and these photographs will provide an abiding tribute to Route 66’s contribution to our nation’s heritage.
You can see thumbnails of his Route 66 photos here and his Route 66 posters here, in addition to the Web site above.
Federbar told me in an e-mail that he hopes to have the book out in stores in “a year or less.”