Agloe

Agloe, New York first appeared on a road map in the 1930s, its fictitious name invented by Otto G. Lindberg, director of the General Drafting Company, and his assistant Ernest Alpers. The name is an anagram of their initials, AGLOE, and was conceived as a copyright trap: any future map that referenced the name was plagiarizing Lindberg and Alpers.

The book collects images made there in the span of 90 minutes in June 2014: a flurry of photographs that capture the periphery of this imaginary town.

Published by Understory Books.