`Before Elvis There Was Nothing´ André Lützen

`Before Elvis There was Nothing´ André Lützen

Before Elvis There Was Nothing 50 years after Robert Frank’s “The Americans” I set off on my own odyssey through everyday life in America. Rather than copying Robert Frank or faithfully following his route through the States, my aim was to make my own personal, contemporary and polarising account just as Frank had done in the fifties – a road movie in pictures that live off atmosphere and movement. Images that play with established clichés, highlighting the ordinary while abstracting the American dream.

Rather than heading for the big cities to fathom the current mood of the American people, my loosely charted journey was strung between the intellectual and cultural centres of the coastal cities – through small, unremarkable places in Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.