Carol M. Highsmith

Some 500,000 tourists come from around the nation each year to see the uniquely designed corn murals

Carol Highsmith has donated her life's photography work of tens of thousands of images to the Library of Congress during her decades-long career.  The photography collection at the Library is the most historic photographic collection on earth and includes the work of Dorothea Lange and Frances Benjamin Johnston.  Highsmith has been doing a visual study of America for 40 years and travels the United States for about 10 months a year.

South Dakota

Classic view of Mount Rushmore aerial view, Keystone, South Dakota

Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Ten-sided stockade barn, Sturgis, South Dakota

Horse inside stockade-looking barn made of pine poles in Sturgis, South Dakota

1920 round barn made of hollow tile near Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Entrance to the Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota

Mount Rushmore aerial view, Keystone, South Dakota

Green dinosaur figures at Dinosaur Park, Rapid City, South Dakota

Green dinosaur figure at Dinosaur Park, Rapid City, South Dakota

President John F. Kennedy and his son John in "Presidents Walk,” Rapid City, South Dakota

Cowboy scene in Wall Drug, South Dakota

Windmill and pioneer style buildings in a traditional prairie scene, Murdo, South Dakota

Windmill against a blue sky with clouds Murdo, South Dakota

Donkey in Murdo, South Dakota

Roadside sculpture of a skeleton taking a dinosaur skeleton for a walk, South Dakota

Pierce Arrow detail, Murdo, South Dakota

Figure sledding down, Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Surreal jack in the box, Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Longhorn steer head, Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Upside down pink and yellow hammer, Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Surreal head on leg figure, Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Longhorn steer silhouette figure, Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Wasp with fly swatter figure, Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Red dragon figure, Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Figure with jaw dropped, Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Metal stick figure, Porter Sculpture Park, Montrose, South Dakota

Infrared view of the badlands, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Smiling corn figure, Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota