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Main Street.
A streetscape gathers many separate decisions into a single view. Shopfronts, upper windows, signs and gaps between buildings reveal the rhythm of a place without requiring a single spectacular landmark. Margolies’s Main Street photographs invite a slower kind of looking: read from one façade to the next, notice differences in scale, and follow where a sign interrupts the roofline. State and city filters allow neighboring views to be considered together.
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Peach water tower, angle 2, Frontage Road, Gaffney, South Carolina
Green Giant statue (1979), early morning angle view, Route 169, Blue Earth, Minnesota
Superman statue at Massac County Courthouse, horizontal view, Metropolis, Illinois
Superman statue at Massac County Courthouse, horizontal view, Metropolis, Illinois
Viking statue, Alexandria, Minnesota
World's largest buffalo (46' long, 26' high, 60 tons), Jamestown, North Dakota
Highway 567, junction, near Taos, Taos, New Mexico
Highway 6, west of Adel, Adel, Iowa
I-84 near Hammett, Idaho
Elm Street, view 1, New Canaan, Connecticut
Main Street, Columbus Junction, Iowa
South side of Capitol Plaza, Springfield, Illinois
South 1st Street, Raton, New Mexico
Main Street stores, angle view, Red Bluff, California
Main Street, Stillwater, Minnesota
Georgia Street, Louisiana, Missouri
South Perry Street, Spokane, Washington
Lincolnway, three commercial buildings, angle 1, Cheyenne, Wyoming
Lincolnway, three commercial buildings, angle 2, Cheyenne, Wyoming
Knights of Columbus, Cotton Street, Shreveport, Louisiana
Ace of Clubs Lounge, Route 90, Lake Charles, Louisiana
Lam's Oriental Cuisine, Route 72, Canton, Ohio
Mark You Restaurant, Fall River, Massachusetts
