Country Club Road, Tucson, Arizona, December 7, 1976

Artist/Culture Stephen Shore

Date1976

Mediumchromogenic print

Dimensionsimage: 30.6 × 38.4 cm (12 1/16 × 15 1/8 in.)
sheet: 40.5 × 50.7 cm (15 15/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineEliza S. Paine Fund

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Object number1977.128

Label TextAmong the earliest adoptees of color photography, Sternfeld, Eggleston, and Shore documented American roadsides throughout the 1970s. Their bright, saturated hues suggest a connection to Pop artists like Rosalyn Drexler, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann. As a senior in high school, Shore found his way to Warhol’s studio. There he documented the goings-on at Warhol’s infamous Factory, an art space that became a hangout for celebrities, artists, hipsters, and socialites. If Warhol serves as the de facto starting point for American Pop, Eggleston’s photograph of a weathered Wonder Bread billboard signals its end. The eye-catching reds, yellows, and blues on the billboard have surrendered to rust. The seductive and splashy branding Warhol emulated in his Campbell’s Soup Can series has eroded into the equally unattractive reality of economic depression. ProvenanceLight Gallery, 724 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10019

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