Amy Stein
Six Flags Park, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
2006

Name: Six Flags Park, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
Brand: Amy Stein
Price: 1200 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Digital C-print Signed and numbered, verso 16 x 20 inches (Edition of 15) 24 x 30 inches (Edition of 10) 30 x 37.5 inches (Edition of 5) This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Please note that prices increase as editions sell. “Beginning with the government’s failed response to the flooding of New Orleans in 2005, the American people suffered through a series of devastating corruptions of their traditional structures of support. Stranded is a meditation on the despondence of the American psyche as this collapse of certainty left the country stuck in an unfamiliar space between distress and relief. In this series the car serves as both a figurative symbol of American destiny and a literal representation of the personal breakdowns on the road to that promise. The images live in the road photography tradition of Robert Frank, Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld, but where they sought to capture the American experience through ‘the journey,’ my photographs seek to tell the story of this time through the journey interrupted. “I have spent the past five plus years driving across America photographing stranded motorists. Finding subjects is a matter of chance and every encounter is tense because of the unusual circumstances of our interaction and the inherent danger of the roadside environment. Most of the photographs from this series can be found on a Google Map that documents my travels across the US.” —Amy Stein Amy Stein’s work explores man’s evolving isolation from community, culture, and the environment. Her photographs have been the subject of numerous national and international exhibitions, and are represented in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; among many others. Her first monograph, "Domesticated," was published by Photolucida in 2008. Her second monograph, "Tall Poppy Syndrome," with Stacy Arezou Mehrfar, was published by Decode Books in 2012.

Creator:

Amy Stein (1970, American)

Creation Year:

2006

Dimensions:

Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)

Medium:

C Print

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

2000-2009