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100 Boots out of a Job, Terminal Island, California, Feb. 15, 1972, 4:45 P.M.
100 Boots out of a Job, Terminal Island, California, Feb. 15, 1972, 4:45 P.M.
Object number1973.24.33

100 Boots out of a Job, Terminal Island, California, Feb. 15, 1972, 4:45 P.M.

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the series 100 Boots
Date1971-1973
Artist (American, 1935-)
photographed by (American, 1944 - 2013)
CultureAmerican
MediumOffset-printed postcard (halftone)
DimensionsImage: 4 1/2 x 7 in. (11.4 x 17.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
On View
Not on view
Period20th c
Classification(s)
BibliographyBrier, Jessica D.. On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., 2022, pl. 10; Fox, Howard N., Eleanor Antin, and Lisa Bloom. Eleanor Antin. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Fellows of Contemporary Art, 1999, p. 57 ProvenanceGift of the artist
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryOn the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, August 20 - December 22, 2022
Label TextHumor finds its way into each of Eleanor Antin’s postcards in her "100 Boots" series. In the early 1970s, Antin took 100 rubber black boots across New York and California, staging them in various urban and non-urban settings. She printed and distributed these photographs of the boots in the form of postcards, adding another layer of travel to their ongoing journey.
DescriptionBlack and white image of pairs of boots facing different directions in a barren landscape with brush visible in the midground and electrical poles, smoke stacks, smoke, and various industrial architecture in the background.
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