Text engl. - Titled after a Gardener monograph published in 1982. "[...] this exhibition features early prints of images from [his] highly acclaimed, exquisitely printed book. The black-and-white photographs, made by Gardner with his 35mm cameras on road trips throughout the mainland United States from 1960-1980, reveal a nation of contradictions. Its people are obsessed with guns, Bibles, the Vietnam war, the cold war and partying at Mardi Gras, in a nation still beset by issues of racial segregation." (bwgallerist.com/2010/06/08/on-site-america-illustrated-george-w-gardner-deborah-bell-photographs-nyc/; seen 02.2018).