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PHILLIP MARCH JONES: POLAROID MEMORIES OF ROADSIDE SHRINES

A PHOTOGRAPHER DOCUMENTS A VERNACULAR ART FORM MARKED BY GRIEF AND SPONTANEOUS CREATIVITY

This article was first published late last month in brutjournal's November 2022 issue.

Phillip March Jones, “39.01102N 80.26601W,” undated Polaroid color photograph from the book Points of Departure: Roadside Memorial Polaroids (The Jargon Society, 2011)


by Edward M. Gómez


According to information compiled by the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 42,915 people were killed in motor-vehicle traffic crashes in 2021, marking a 10.5 percent increase over that same data point — 38,824 fatalities — for the year 2020. The total number of fatalities recorded last year was the highest number of its kind since 2005, according to preliminary data released by the NHTSA.

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