Thu, Feb 19
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Carl Moore, On the Road with On the Road
Carl Moore, inspired by Robert Frank’s "The Americans," hit the road with Jack Kerouac’s "On the Road." Like Frank, Moore sought to reveal America to Americans—capturing the landscapes, faces, and fleeting moments that echo Kerouac’s metaphorical vision.
Date, Time & Location
Feb 19, 2026, 6:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
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Photographs, Carl Moore; Forward, Jim Sampas
A photographic accompaniment to On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Paired with selected passages from On the Road, the photographs invite readers to see Kerouac’s America anew, not as nostalgia, but as a living, breathing terrain.
From Denver, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Los Angeles to a cross-country drive with his son from Santa Fe to New England, Moore retraces Sal Paradise’s footsteps with his Nikon in hand. The result is a vivid, contemporary counterpart to Kerouac’s masterpiece—where the photographs themselves feel restless, alive, and haunted by the same hunger for the open road.
As Jim Sampas notes in his Foreword, “It isn’t often that something comes in that excites me as much as this project.” These…