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Maker(s):Paulin, Frank
Culture:American (1926-2016)
Title:Fair-way, New Orleans, Louisiana
Date Made:1952
Type:Photograph
Materials:gelatin silver print
Measurements:Sheet: 11 in x 14 in; 27.9 cm x 35.6 cm; Image: 10 1/2 in x 13 3/16 in; 26.7 cm x 33.5 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2010.16
Credit Line:Gift of Bruce and Silke Silverstein
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
Fair-way, New Orleans, Louisiana emphasizes repetition to create a sense of disorientation. Signs for the restaurant and certain brand names, such as Coca-Cola, are repeated along the two adjacent sides of the building in this photograph. Our impression of this pseudo-symmetrical view, enhanced by the curved balcony, is that the scene is bowed, like the reflection in a distorting mirror at the junction of paths in a funhouse. A single shirtless boy in jeans and sneakers runs around the corner, shattering, or defying, the disorienting effect of this scene, while enhancing its carnivalesque mood with his childlike exuberance.

MD, PHOTOdocument exhibition, March 30, 2012-July 22, 2012

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