Bedroom in a house near Scranton, North Dakota, June 9, 2000
Artist
Steve Fitch
(American, born 1949)
Date2000
MediumChromogenic print (Fuji Crystal Archive paper)
DimensionsImage: 15 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (39.4 × 49.5 cm)
Support: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Support: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Steve Fitch, 2021
Object number2021.10.22
DescriptionInterior of room with window on rear wall at far left, covered by a translucent white curtain through which outdoor vegetation is visible. To the right of it on the wall is a studio photograph of a woman and a man posing together, both wearing eyeglasses. Space is dominated by a bed with a white cover on which a pile of clothing and accessories is dumped, looks like three ladies’ handbags.eMuseum Notes
For his photographic project on abandoned buildings of the Great Plains, Steve Fitch found no one around to ask if he could explore the houses and structures he encountered as he drove across the region. The low light and close walls of this room seem like the setting for a horror movie, and Fitch says that many such places were far from silent, with a soundtrack of creaking doors, rattling windows, and scurrying animals. To make these pictures in low light, he made long exposures with his view camera, standing for fifteen minutes or more in these places resonating with failure and loss.
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