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Celedonio Gallegos's House, Llano de San Juan, New Mexico
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Alex HarrisAmerican Photographer · 1949–present
All works by this person →> 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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- negative June 1985; print 1994
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- Chromogenic print
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In presenting Caledonio Gallego's vibrantly decorated bedroom, Alex Harris revealed an individual's daily life as well as his human presence. After several months of living and working in a small Hispanic village in northern New Mexico, Harris realized that the photographs he made of his neighbors' vividly decorated living rooms, bedrooms, and kitchens were as descriptive of their inhabitants as any conventional portrait. As a result, he began to focus less on the human subject in his photographs and more on the way a lived-in space betrays a specific presence.
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