Kitchen in a house near Regent, western North Dakota, May 18, 2001
Artist
Steve Fitch
(American, born 1949)
Date2001
MediumChromogenic print (Fuji Crystal Archive paper)
DimensionsImage: 15 3/8 × 19 1/2 in. (39.1 × 49.5 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Steve Fitch, 2021
Object number2021.10.23
DescriptionInterior of house with old-fashioned ice box at left and table jutting out from wall toward viewer near center of picture. On table are plates, a plan, jars, a drinking glass, and toaster, all covered in dust. At front left of table is a significant pile of animal droppings. Against wall to the right of the table is a wooden chair painted white with a brown jar on its seat. Dust and debris on floor.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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