The Photography of Edward Keating

Main Street: The Lost Dream of Route 66,
The Photography of Edward Keating Exhibition and Talk

Friday, June 12 | Amarillo Museum of Art

6 PM | Cocktail reception

7 PM | Gallery Talk
(Speakers: Carrie Boretz Keating (Photographer and wife of the late Edward Keating) and Caitlin Keating (Journalist, Filmmaker, Producer, and daughter of Carrie and Edward Keating)

AMoA Members Free | Non-Members $15

Tickets available for purchase at the door and online

The Photography of edward keating

In conjunction with the exhibition, Main Street: The Lost Dream of Rt. 66, Photographs by Edward Keating, join us for a conversation about the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Edward Keating. Main Street is the result of 11 years of travels along Route 66 — the 2,400-mile stretch between Chicago and Santa Monica. 

Keating approached the highway as both a journalist and memoirist. His photographs bring attention to the lives and myths scattered along the stretch of Route 66 and serve as a metaphor for the deterioration of middle-class America. The exhibition and this conversation will reflect on stories and personal mythology constructed from the artist’s recollections of the road. Edward Keating served as a photojournalist for nearly 40 years for such publications as New York Times, Forbes and Business Week. In 2001, Keating received the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, as well as the John Faber Award for International Reporting, Overseas Press Club, for his series of photographs on the September 11 attacks. He additionally shared the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with New York Times staff for the series, “How Race is Lived in America,” and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for the 1997 series “Vows,” co-authored with Lois Smith Brady. In 2003, Keating joined Contact Press Images photography agency. MAIN STREET was Keating’s sixth monograph. Tragically, Keating died of cancer in Sept 2021 as a result of his many months long exposure to toxic materials, while photographing at Ground Zero.