Included here are some of my favorite books from my library that inspire me and my photography. —Charles




Ed Ruscha, by Richard D. Marshall





Twentysix Abandoned Gasoline Stations, photography by Jeff Brouws





Highway: America's Endless Dream, photography by Jeff Brouws, Text by Bernd Polster and Phil Patton





Inside the Live Reptile Tent, photography by Jeff Brouws, text by Bruce Caron





Readymades: American Roadside Artifacts, photography by Jeff Brouws





Approaching Nowhere, photography by Jeff Brouws





2 1/4, photography by William Eggelston





Uncommon Places: The Complete Works, photography by Stephen Shore





American Prospects, photography by Joel Sternfeld





Florida, photography by Walker Evans, essay by Robert Plunket





Signs, photography by Walker Evans, essay by Andrei Codrescu





Fotografiks, photography by David Carson, text by Philip B. Meggs





Pretty Vacant: The Los Angeles Dingbat Observed, photography by Clive Piercy





Friedlander: Museum of Modern art, photography by Lee Friedlander





Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains, photography by Steve Fitch





Route 66: Lost & Found, photography by Alan Hess





Route 66, photography by Gerd Kittel





Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture, by Alan Hess