{"id":64,"date":"2012-01-25T21:16:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T20:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zens.info\/phot\/en\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2026-03-15T17:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:39:44","slug":"journeying-66","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zens.info\/en\/photography\/books\/journeying-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Journeying 66"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/388457944?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The photo film clip was created in collaboration with Adrian Kelterborn<br \/>\nMagnum in Motion, NY \/ Berlin 2011<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The book Journeying 66 &#8211; Awarded<br \/>\nwith the predicate &#8222;German Photo Book Award &#8211; Nominated 2013&#8220;<\/h2>\n<p>These photographs by Rosemarie Zens, a crossover-artist who works in both<br \/>\nphotography and literature, are testimonies to the legendary Route 66 and our<br \/>\ncollective 1960s way of life.<br \/>\nOver 40 years ago, Zens followed the siren call of freedom on the road. She then retraced her journey in 2010, witnessing how the highway had in the meantime been transformed into a kind of museum.<\/p>\n<p>Out of a mixture of private memories and allusions to social ideologies and media myths, the photographer has developed a unique pictorial language. What interests her most is how the myths of the road can be related \u2013 from image to reflection to image \u2013 to create an absurdist, almost surreal and yet contemplative perspective.<\/p>\n<p>From the very beginning the artist is confronted with the question: is it possible to subvert a myth without ironically breaking it, to modify it with one\u2019s own insertions This myth \u2013 long an element of our collective memory \u2013 holds in our subconscious the images from John Steinbeck\u2019s socially critical novel\u00a0 <em>\u201eThe Grapes of Wrath\u201c <\/em>(1939) woven together into the all-American going on the road \u2013 <em>there\u2019s always<\/em><em> something to find that is better, there is\u00a0<\/em><em>something new down the road, around the bend.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>reading sample<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/zens.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/The-Myth-of-the-Road-Journeying-66_en-18.9.22.pdf\">The Myth of the Road<\/a> (PDF)<br \/>\nEssay by Rosemarie Zens<\/p>\n<p>Selected title German Photo Book Award 2013<\/p>\n<p>Hardcover<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-530\" src=\"https:\/\/zens.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dfpaufklebernominiert200.jpg\" alt=\"dfpaufklebernominiert200\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>30 x 23 cm<br \/>\n96 pages<br \/>\n43 color ills.<br \/>\nGerman\/English<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/zens.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Framing-Memory-Epilogue-by-Wolfgang-Zurborn-2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">With an epilog by Wolfgang Zurborn<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"artbooksheidelberg.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kehrerverlag.com\/en\/rosemarie-zens-journeying-66-978-3-86828-275-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kehrer Verlag<\/a>, Heidelberg, 2012<br \/>\nISBN 978-3-86828-275-7<br \/>\n$ 45,-<\/p>\n<p><em>Journeying 66<\/em> may be ordered through<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Journeying-66-Wolfgang-Zurborn\/dp\/3868282750\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=L4GTDXR2YMEW&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Cbk3v8IpyB-PwNrJer64bw.-ys54CXW_l0JRTdGkbMLDYDzH4WGggJz60Aust5oJ4k&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=rosemarie+zens+journeying+66&amp;qid=1716963180&amp;sprefix=rosemarie+zens+journeying+6%2Caps%2C226&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amazon.com<\/a> or<br \/>\nSigned copies are available by contacting the artist<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviews<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/zens.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/At-66.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freddy Langer FAZ March 14, 2013<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.photoeye.com\/bookstore\/citation.cfm?catalog=KH049&amp;i=9783868282757&amp;i2=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PhotoEye 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/reisen\/2012-07\/fs-journeying-66-2\">DIE ZEIT June 27, 2012<\/a>:<br \/>\nThe American myth of the road<br \/>\nBeing on the road and taking photographs belong together. On her 66th birthday, Rosemarie Zens set off &#8211; a route she had traveled in 1966: Route 66. The artist was looking for traces of memory and the feeling of life at that time. She asks, &#8222;Is it possible to subvert a myth without breaking it ironically, to modify it through one&#8217;s own interventions?&#8220; Route 66 is the road of hope par excellence: perhaps there\u2019s always something to find that is better something new around the bend. Zens&#8216; photos appear in the illustrated book Journeying 66 (Kehrer Verlag).\u00a0 (Translated into English)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zens.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Route-66-Fotogalerie-Geo-Magazin-27.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GEO Magazin Juni 27, 2012:<\/a><br \/>\nIn 1966, photographer Rosemarie Zens traveled the legendary Route 66 through the USA for the first time. At the age of 66, she returned to follow in the footsteps of her first journey.<br \/>\nMore than 40 years ago, Rosemarie Zens followed the call of freedom &#8222;on the road&#8220; &#8211; in the spirit of the 60s. In 2010, she returned to this legendary place and discovered how the road had changed: from a destination of longing to a museum. Route 66 has become a symbol of the call for freedom.<br \/>\nNevertheless, it is not nostalgia that drives her. She wants to depict being on the road itself. 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