Photographer Julia Dean is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this documentary photography. From the project ‘GENERAL STORES ACROSS AMERICA, 1980’S’. To see Julia’s body of work, click on any photograph.
This general store project began in Maine in 1978, when I was living with and studying under famed photographer Berenice Abbott. I was 23 at the time. Berenice was 80. Her biographer, Hank O’Neal lent me his beautiful 8×10 Deardorff camera to begin this project, but I soon went back to my 35 mm so I could be more candid. The pictures here were taken on trips across America. My desire was to document the last of the old general stores around the U.S. before they all became modern convenience stores. I would pack up my old car for a month at a time, with a tent and a few other camping supplies, $100 in cash, and a Texaco credit card, which I used to feed both me and my car.
All images and text © Julia Dean
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Thank you!
Wow! Takes me back.
Great capture of a moment in time ✓.
Fantastic photos!