Untitled (from the South Bronx series)

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Untitled (from the South Bronx series)
Untitled (from the South Bronx series)
Artist/Maker (American, born 1944)
Date1984
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 3/16 × 9 5/16 in. (15.7 × 23.7 cm) Sheet: 9 1/2 × 12 5/8 in. (24.1 × 32.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2021.12.241
Not on view
DescriptionIn the mid-1970s, an economic downturn combined with complex social and political pressures caused the gradual decline of the South Bronx. By the 1980s, crime, middle-class exodus, fires, and the lack of public services had taken their toll—little was left standing. The photographs were intended to present an objective, wide-ranging survey of the devastated urban landscape. Images of crumbling architectural facades and dark, fading interiors suggest both Classical and Romantic approaches to ruin and decline. On a personal level, the landscape seemed not dissimilar to that of the Meadowlands, disserted, quiet, and visually compelling. -- Ray Mortenson SOURCE: https://www.raymortenson.com/south-bronx-info
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Provenance 2021: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling.
Signature Signed "Ray Mortenson 1984" on verso bottom right in pencil
Inscribed "Rm-211.2" on verso top left in pencil
"8-01-84-2-4" on verso bottom left in pencil
Untitled (from the South Bronx series)
Untitled (from the South Bronx series)
Ray Mortenson
Date: c. 1984
Medium: Gelatin silver print
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Untitled (from the South Bronx series)
Untitled (from the South Bronx series)
Ray Mortenson
Date: 1983
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2021.12.240
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