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Abelino's Mother's House, Las Vegas, 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 January 1984; print 1993
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- Chromogenic print
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Is Alex Harris mocking television or religious icons? He took this photograph, a still life from a series entitled "Red White Blue and God Bless You," as an intimate glimpse into the co-existence of secular and sacred culture in the lives of his adopted community in northern New Mexico.
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