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| Book Signing with Steve Fitch this Saturday, May 12, 2–4 pm |
"In this fascinating and comprehensive account, we are able to join in Fitch’s expansive journey, truly an odyssey, as represented in the book’s 120 unforgettable photographs, all sequenced to mimic the open road—both during day and night. Fitch explains the project in his informative introduction, in which, interestingly, he suggests that the petroglyphs of the ancient Pueblo people have endured far better and longer than anything made during the last sixty years. Curator Toby Jurovics, in his insightful concluding essay, positions Fitch’s work in relation to that of the practitioners of the photographic style known as the New Topographics and Fitch’s own view of photography as a visual form of cultural anthropology. Vanishing Vernacular: Western Landmarks is sure to become a modern-day classic, a book that will be all the more revered as America and Americans move farther away from the highways of the past. That economy and roadside culture are vanishing like endangered species, but Fitch was along for the ride. In sharing that past, he has been witness to his own form of historic preservation."
– George F. Thompson Publishing
Limited Edition A:
Starlite Motel, Mesa, Arizona, December 28, 1980 – $350
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| 8"x10" Signed Print, Edition of 20 – © Steve Fitch |
Limited Edition B:
Blue Swallow Motel, Hwy. 66, Tucumcari, New Mexico; July, 1990 – $1050
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| 8"x10" Signed Print, Edition of 20 – © Steve Fitch (Only 2 left) |
Limited Edition C:
Motel, Raton, New Mexico; 1980 – $350
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| 8"x10" Signed Print, Edition of 20 – © Steve Fitch |
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| Steve Fitch in his Studio |
Steve Fitch is an American photographer born in 1949. He earned an MFA from the University New Mexico in 1978, and has taught photography at UC Berkeley, the University of Colorado in Boulder, Princeton University, and since 1990, at the College of Santa Fe. Fitch's photographs are included in the permanent collections of such museums as the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Chicago Art Institute.
For more information regarding the Vanishing Vernacular Book Signing, and to purchase prints from the series, please reach out to Gallery Staff at 505-988-5152 x202 or gallery@photoeye.com.