Steve Fitch. 1973. New Mexico.
This image is for sale at the Joseph Bellows Gallery in California. He loves to show vintage black and white photographs, and he shares some with me.
This Steve Fitch image is described by the gallery as a “Vintage gelatin silver print. 11×14”
The artist calls it “Motel Highway 85. 1973. New Mexico. Truth or Consequences”
Steve Fitch is now 77 years old. He is well known and has won many awards and has had many showings. He has taught at the college level.
I love his style of photographing vernacular subjects such as signs and motels on highways, as above. This image has a beautiful low contrast feel. Great photos don’t have to be brightly lit or sharply focused. I don’t know, but he may have shot this photo with a classic large format camera, a la George Tice.
As some of you know, I do admire subtle photo imagery in black and white, as in the “Blue Bird Court” above.
He and I are from the same era—Here are two of mine:
Tapatia. Asbury Park, NJ. Paul Goldfinger. Blogfinger.net
New York Mail. Paul Goldfinger. 2025 Blogfinger.net
To see some of my images, besides viewing Blogfinger.net, go to our home page and click on the home photo gallery.
“Mamaleh”. Yaacov Shapiro from his “18 Pearls of Yiddish Songs.”
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