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  • "Photographs always exist in a context – they are laden with social or political meaning."
    —Jeff Brouws
    Inspired by Ed Ruscha’s serial photography of ordinary places, Jeff Brouws has focused on ‘the overlooked, the obsolete, the mundane’ contemporary American landscape throughout his oeuvre. Arranged in his signature grid format, Farm Forms, Portfolio, comprises images of abandoned farm structures taken between 1993 and 1995. In each composition, his subject is captured within the seasonal landscape, offering a sense of place as well as the passage of time. These photographs collectively represent not only a historical record of these structures but also Brouws’ lifelong project: a ‘visual anthropology’ of the built environment, continuously questioning what it means to be American and, more broadly, human. Brouws’s work is held in major institutions, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

    • Catalogue Essay

      Plate list:

      1, California, 1995
      2, Kansas, 1993
      3, South Dakota, 1993
      6, Montana 1993
      7, South Dakota, 1993
      8, Colorado, 1993
      9, Missouri, 1993
      11, South Dakota, 1993
      15, Nebraska, 1993
      17, California, 1995
      22, South Dakota, 1993
      23, California, 1993
      25, South Dakota, 1993
      28 Montana, 1993
      30, Kansas, 1993
      33, South Dakota, 1993
      37, California, 1995
      40, South Dakota, 1993
      41, California, 1995
      44, Kansas, 1993
      49, South Dakota, 1993
      50, South Dakota, 1993
      66, South Dakota, 1993
      69, Nebraska, 1993

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Farm Forms Portfolio

1993-1995
Twenty-four archival pigment prints.
Each 5 x 5 in. (12.7 x 12.7 cm)
Each signed, titled, dated and numbered 8/9 in pencil on the verso.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

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Photographs

New York Auction 12 October 2022