Carol M. Highsmith has photographed landscapes, architecture, rural and urban areas, and everyday people across the United States, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Her work documents the built environment alongside the people who move through it, from historic sites such as Ellis Island in New York Harbor to the ordinary street scenes. She has donated more than 100,000 copyright-free images to the Library of Congress for public use. Taken together, these images form an ongoing record of twenty-first-century American life, a project she has pursued over decades.
Highsmith credits iconic photographers Frances Benjamin Johnston and Dorothea Lange as her influence and inspiration. After studying at the Corcoran School of Photography in Washington, D.C., Highsmith traveled throughout the United States, taking photographs of all fifty states for Random House. She considers herself a documentarian and has often been referred to as “America’s Photographer” because of the breadth of her publicly accessible photographs of the country.
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