10-4 Magazine - For Today's Trucker

A REALISTIC LOOK AT TRUCKS & TRUCKING
Kim Reierson Photographs the Culture That Moves Us

Long celebrated in books, song and film, and currently being glorified on MTV-style television shows, the trucker occupies an almost mythical spot in our imaginations. In her new book EIGHTEEN: A LOOK AT THE CULTURE THAT MOVES US, photographer Kim Reierson offers a more realistic view of trucks and truckers, and invites us to consider and examine the nitty gritty details of trucker life. The book is Reierson’s visual documentation of, and homage to, one of America’s most ubiquitous subcultures: the men and women who crisscross the country piloting 18-wheeled rigs across vast, open landscapes, under the big blue skies of the USA. For five years, Reierson rode with and photographed these American heroes. She hung out in truck stops and befriended truckers. She traveled the highways with them, waking up in 20 different states. Divided into four sections (Going the Distance, The Driving Force, Two Weeks with Tim, Trucks and Truck Stops) and including essays by Reierson and John Leland of The New York Times, EIGHTEEN includes over 150 large-format photographs. If you are looking for a book filled with pages of chrome-covered rigs at truck shows and the like, this is not the one for you. But if you are looking for an honest, interesting and artistic picture book about trucks and truckers, you’ll enjoy this one. For more information about Kim Reierson and/or to purchase the book, EIGHTEEN: A LOOK AT THE CULTURE THAT MOVES US, contact Ricky Lee at (917) 438-7015 or visit www.kimreierson.com. Kim hopes to eventually have the book available in stores and truck stops across the country, but for now it can only be purchased online and at a select few stores in New York and California.