Sunshine state. Swampland paradise. Tourist aspiration. Real estate racket. Refuge of excess. Political swing-state. Subtropical fever dream. With forms of nature

and culture found nowhere else, Florida is unique. It is also among the most elusive and misunderstood of places. Anastasia Samoylova photographs Florida on intensive road trips. Walker Evans (1903–75) photographed it over four decades.

Twisting the visual clichés, these two remarkably discerning observers convey Florida's dizzying combination of fantasy and reality.

Evans witnessed modern Florida emerging in the 1930s, with its blend of cultures, waves of tourism, stark beauty and blatant vulgarity. He photographed there until the 1970s, making Polaroids that still feel contemporary. Samoylova inherits what Evans saw coming. With intelligence and humor, she picks her way through the seductions and disappointments of a place that symbolizes the contradictions of the United States today. In Floridas, photographs by Samoylova and Evans are presented in parallel, weaving past and present, switching between blackand- white and color imagery, all complemented by an essay by editor David Campany and a visionary short story by celebrated novelist and Florida resident Lauren Groff.

阳光之州、沼泽地的天堂、游客的幻想、房地产的骗局、过度的避难所、政治摇摆州、亚热带的狂热梦想，佛罗里达州拥有其他地方所没有的独特的自然和文化形式。它也是最难以捉摸和被误解的地方之一。阿纳斯塔西娅·萨莫伊洛娃（Anastasia Samoylova）在密集的公路旅行中拍摄佛罗里达。而沃克·埃文斯（Walker Evans，1903-75）在四十年间拍摄了它。这两位非常有洞察力的观察家扭转了视觉上的陈词滥调，传达了佛罗里达州令人眼花缭乱的幻想和现实的结合。

埃文斯见证了现代佛罗里达州在20世纪30年代的兴起，其文化的融合、旅游的浪潮、鲜明的美和公然的粗俗。他在那里一直拍摄到20世纪70年代，拍摄的宝丽来照片仍然具有当代感。萨莫伊洛娃继承了埃文斯看到的东西。她用智慧和幽默，在这个象征着当今美国的矛盾的地方的诱惑和失望中挑出了自己的路。在本书中，萨莫伊洛娃和埃文斯的摄影作品平行呈现，交织着过去和现在，在黑白和彩色图像之间切换，所有这些都由编辑大卫·坎帕尼（David Campany）的一篇文章和知名小说家、佛罗里达州居民劳伦·格罗夫（Lauren Groff）的一个富有远见的短篇故事来补充。