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Amadeo Sandoval's Kitchen and Bedroom, Río Lucío, New Mexico

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American Photographer · 1949–present

> I met [Walker] Evans in 1969 or '70, and I got to know him pretty well. His house was filled with collections of all kinds. He tied his photography closely to the notion of collecting, the notion that photography is essentially a matter of collecting and editing images. That had a huge influence on me. > > --Alex Harris In 1972, one year after completing his undergraduate degree at Yale where he

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Date: negative June 1985; print 1994
Medium: Chromogenic print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum
Object ID: 8c0c31dd-b188-41df-9a3b-3eeb6b357108

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>Amadeo's inscription above the doorway . . . summed up the spirit of the house: "I Love My God, I Love the Red White and Blue and You. Red White Blue and God Bless You." > >--Alex Harris In photographing the interior of Amadeo Sandoval's modest kitchen and bedroom, Alex Harris provided an intimate glimpse into the life of his adopted community in northern New Mexico. Both sensual and sorrowful, this image conveys the innate dignity Harris found not only in the home of Amadeo Sandoval but among all the residents of the region. Harris memorialized the vivid color schemes of his neighbors' homes and the high desert landscapes of northern New Mexico in his series *Red White Blue and God Bless You* , published in 1992, and named after an inscription on the wall of Amadeo's kitchen.

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