“There was a time in my life when the bright yellow Waffle House sign sang out to me, called me off the highway, lured me out of my ’82 Sentra. I was younger then, and I remember sitting in a booth and mostly focusing on my food. And so I take great joy, all these years later, in these images. I love the kind of wordly obsessiveness Micah Cash brings to this project: The man visited more than 90 Waffle House restaurants in 11 states, and serves up sly, subtle pictures that lead me to look beyond my plate of scattered, smothered, and covered hash browns and think about politics, economics, anthropology, and architecture.”

— Bill Shapiro, former Editor-in-Chief of LIFE magazine

Waffle House VISTAS

The Complete Second Edition: New Photographs, New Essay, New Vistas

HARDCOVER PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK from The Bitter Southerner

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The original book from 2019 resequenced and expanded to include over 40 new photographs made from 2020 - 2022 with new essays by Beth McKibben and Mike Jordan.

• Features over 80 full-color photographs - the entire Waffle House Vistas project.

• Essays by

  • Beth McKibben (Eater)

  • Mike Jordan (Butter.ATL)

  • Laura Bullard (writer)

  • Maurice Carlos Ruffin (author)

  • Micah Cash

• 11 inches tall x 9 inches wide

• 156 pages

• Hardbound

“Micah Cash’s photographs help us see. Pointed ever outward, they make us aware of our relationship to the South, including buildings so banal they often go unseen. Cash does not let us ignore them or the communities they represent. Rather than walk a mile in someone else’s shoes, the viewer sits awhile in someone else’s red-lined booth and sees the world from their place at the table. His window panes are like another camera lens. We look out sometimes steamy and other times crystal-clear windows, as if sometimes daydreaming and other times awoken suddenly to reality.”

— Jeffrey Richard-Moll, Curator of American Art, Georgia Museum of Art