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Hither Hills State Park, Montauk, New York
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Adam BartosAmerican Photographer · 1953–present
All works by this person →> Most of my work has involved ... some aspect of twentieth-century utopianism. > >--Adam Bartos Native New Yorker Adam Bartos has been photographing since he was a teenager and creates photographs suffused with a quiet calm. He cites William Eggleston--known for his intensely colored images of ordinary scenes--and the earlier photographers Timothy O'Sullivan and Carleton Watkins--both known for t
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- 1991–1994
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- Chromogenic print
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A precise eye for detail-here articulated by a chipped, slightly singed yellow candle holder nestled between pots and pans--distinguishes the photographs Adam Bartos made in the early 1990s at the recreational campgrounds of Hither Hills State Park in Montauk, Long Island. While the delicately printed tablecloth hints at the contrast between camping and creature comfort, the focus on eating implements connotes a well-worn tradition of domestic still lifes, telling the history of a family through an intimate portrait of its tools for nourishment.
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