Honky-tonk near Vaughn, eastern New Mexico, May 21, 1991

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Honky-tonk near Vaughn, eastern New Mexico, May 21, 1991

Artist Steve Fitch (American, born 1949)

Date1991

MediumChromogenic print (Fuji Crystal Archive paper)

DimensionsImage: 15 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (39.4 × 49.5 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)

ClassificationsPhotograph

Credit LineGift of Steve Fitch, 2021

Object number2021.10.18

DescriptionFlat and dull-colored landscape with some mountains visible in distance at left. Picture is dominated by a white or light-colored drive-in movie screen seen at an angle from the rear, with three long poles running at an angle from screen to ground to help support it.
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After venturing inside an abandoned building in Vaughn, New Mexico, which turned out to have been a music hall, Steve Fitch decided to capture what was left of its spirit. In the dim light of the boarded-up building, with rain coming through the damaged roof, he found a dry spot from which to make a long exposure that would capture the painted walls. Resuming his drive, the artist made his way to his original destination, the town of Yeso, and made a few more photographs of interiors in vacant buildings there. Thus began his series Gone, an exploration of the post-World War II culture of the high Great Plains region.

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