Trophies in an abandoned school in Bula, Texas, October 24, 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 number2021.10.25
DescriptionRoom with chalkboard or whiteboard on back wall. In fron of it is a wooden cabinet with door hanging open, across the top of which are about fourteen trophies of different shapes and sizes. To the left is a tall, narrow built-in cabinet with unidentified objects on shelves. On floor toward right is debris and another group of assorted trophies.eMuseum Notes
In 1990, after teaching at Princeton University for four years in the Visual Arts Program, Fitch returned to New Mexico and began photographing the ongoing abandonment of the high Great Plains. A book of these photographs, entitled “Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains” was published in 2003 by the University of New Mexico Press and the photographs were circulated in a traveling exhibition.
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