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Robert Farber American, b. 1944
De Soto Rockport, Maine, 1981Series: AmericanaArchival pigment print76.2 x 101.6 cm
30 x 40 inEdition of 25From rural Montana to the Manhattan skyline at dawn, from a New Mexico cowboy to the abandoned lobby of a small-town main street hotel, from an old fashioned boxing ring...From rural Montana to the Manhattan skyline at dawn, from a New Mexico cowboy to the abandoned lobby of a small-town main street hotel, from an old fashioned boxing ring to an old DeSoto automobile in Maine--these textured and painterly images allow us a glimpse into the very heart and soul of America.
- Robert Farber
Exteriors are on the whole presented as settings in which we rarely encounter humanity. They are dedicated to the door of a closed cinema, a wooden schoolhouse, the lateral elevation of a petrol station, the empty road by which a De Soto car is parked, the net curtains that the air floats on the drier beneath a tree, a wide and empty motorway by which a cow is standing at rest. [...] These are just fascinating and unimportant details that become signs of the land that is being narrated. In the settings and atmospheres of America it is often emptiness that is represented - the empty roads, empty rooms, the expanses of the bare landscapes - an emptiness that has no negative character, in the sense of criticism or provocation: it does not reject, but attracts.
- Petra Golusic
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