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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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Sherman Bible Chapel, window and shutter detail, Sherman, Pennsylvania
South of the Border, 57 mile billboard near I-95, Dillon, South Carolina
City Dairy milk bottle, Columbus Avenue, Bay City, Michigan
Voss milk bottle, Yorkville, New York
Voss milk bottle, Yorkville, New York
Rieck's City Dairy, Route 25, Quanicassee, Michigan
Dairy Bar ice cream sign, Main Street, Clintonville, Wisconsin
Oswego Hardware sign, Washington Street, Oswego, Illinois
Rapid City Laundry sign, main Street, Rapid City, South Dakota
Townley milk bottle, 24th and Classen Streets, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Townley milk bottle, 24th and Classen Streets, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Liberty Lanes Bowling sign, Broadway and Russell, Missoula, Montana
Molinelli Jewelers street clock, neon, Main Street, Pocatello, Idaho
Molinelli Jewelers street clock by day, Main Street, Pocatello, Idaho
Airline Pharmacy sign, Southwest 24th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
McGregor Pharmacy sign, Main Street, McGregor, Iowa
McGregor Pharmacy sign, Main Street, McGregor, Iowa
Gilmore Locker Coke sign, Main Street, Gilmore City, Iowa
Copper Bowl sign, Park Avenue, Anaconda, Montana
Deals Luggage Store sign, 3rd Street, Macon, Georgia
Big John statue, East Fifth Street, Metropolis, Illinois
Fish statue at Bodin's on the Lake, Route 2, Ashland, Wisconsin
Lyn Kat Antique Shop, clown sign, Route 30, Abbottstown, Pennsylvania
