Hallway view inside a house in Claude, Texas, May 10, 2004
Artist
Steve Fitch
(American, born 1949)
Date2004
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)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Steve Fitch, 2021
Object number2021.10.24
DescriptionInterior of house with ascending staircase at left that has wooden bannister. Open doorway at rear of composition shows glimpse of another interior space with a closed white door. Above doorway on wall is a piece of paper bearing the image of a waving United States flag. Faded and peeling layers of paper on walls all around and a horizontal paper image of a landscape at left.eMuseum Notes
In 1990, after teaching at Princeton University for four years in the Visual Arts Program, I returned to New Mexico and began photographing the ongoing abandonment of the high Great Plains receiving the Eliot Porter Fellowship from the New Mexico Council for Photography in 1999 to aid in the completion of this project. In 2003 a book of these photographs entitled Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains was published by the University of New Mexico Press and a traveling exhibition of the photographs was organized by University of New Mexico Art Museum. The entire exhibition of forty photographs was purchased by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Since 1990 I have taught photography at the College of Santa Fe.
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