Western Artifacts

Stephen Johnson

This series began in 1982 with the photograph of a Truck Stop Sign in Winnemucca, Nevada. I realized later that I had been noticing these strange and telling landmarks throughout my travels around the American West.

After finishing the Central Valley exhibit in 1986, I started to concentrate more on photographing these symbols and assembling past work. This remains an ongoing project and I would appreciate any information of such western wonders your may have come across.