Steve Fitch: notecard

Steve Fitch earned a BA from UC Berkeley in 1971, an MFA from the University New Mexico in 1978, and has taught photography at UC Berkeley, the University of Colorado in Boulder, Princeton University, and since 1990, at the College of Santa Fe. He is the recipient of three NEA Fellowships, and his widely exhibited photographs are in permanent collections at institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; and the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, among others. Fitch’s monographs are Diesels and Dinosaurs (1976), Marks in Place: Contemporary Responses to Rock Art (1988), Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains (2003), Llano Estacado: Island in the Sky (2011), Motel Signs (2011), and American Motel Signs 1980-2008 (2016).

American Motel Signs II.
Photographs by Steve Fitch.
The Velvet Cell, 2020.   Cat# ZJ561   
Vanishing Vernacular. Western Landmarks.
Photographs by Steve Fitch. Contribution by Toby Jurovics.
George F Thompson Publishing, 2018.   Cat# ZH501    ISBN-13: 978-1938086601
American Motel Signs. 1980-2008.
Photographs by Steve Fitch.
The Velvet Cell, London, 2016.   Cat# ZH054    ISBN-13: 978-1908889379
Steve Schapiro.
Photographs by Steve Schapiro.
Hatje Cantz, 2012.   Cat# DS047    ISBN-13: 978-3775734264
Llano Estacado. An Island in the Sky (Voice in the American West).
Edited by Stephen Bogener. Photographs by Peter Brown, Rick Dingus, Steve Fitch, Miguel Gandert, Tony Gleaton & Andrew John Liccardo.
Texas Tech University Press, 2011.   Cat# ZE965    ISBN-10: 0896726827
Motel Signs. One Picture Book #71.
Photographs by Steve Fitch.
Nazraeli Press, Portland, 2011.   Cat# TR370    ISBN-13: 978-1590053256
Gone. Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains.
Photographs and text by Steve Fitch.
University Of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2003.   Cat# NM168    ISBN-10: 0826329608
Steve Pyke. Philosophers.
Photographs by Steve Pyke.
Cornerhouse, Manchester, 1994.   Cat# PK146    ISBN-10: 0948797762
Marks in Place. Contemporary Responses to Rock Art.
Photographs by Linda Connor, Rick Dingus, Steve Fitch, John Pfahl, and Charles Roitz. Essays by Polly Schaafsma and Keith Davis.
The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1987.   Cat# NM035    ISBN-10: 0826309755
Beyond Color.
Photographs by Harry Bowers, Barbra Esher, Stephen Collins, Steve Fitch, Jack Fulton, Richard Misrach, Arthur Ollman, Barbara Thompson, others
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1980.   Cat# SF013    ISBN-10: 0000000000
Diesels and Dinosaurs.
Photographs by Steve Fitch.
Long Run Press, Berkeley, 1976.   Cat# CS002    ISBN-10: 0000000000
a half hour well spent:

Mr. Fitch’s website is at: http://www.stevefitch.com/

Boom Boom on the Road

There once was a newcomer to Syracuse. He went to an organic food store for bulk food. In the basement, on the way, was a newly opening facility for photographers. Community Darkrooms. One of the founders was Tom Bryan, who, as it goes, went on. He returned with recipes and a wife. They opened Boom Boom Tex Mex restaurant. Now, that place is just a t-shirt. This one traveled a bit with me. One loop around the wide west

Overnight: 4.26.21

Dye Hokey
dye transfer requires space, a bit of attention time, and dexterity.
It is a process cloaked in rounders and back benchers making it a cult. Most of them never got to the real process, instead they stay at the hand waving, constant fear of failure, fear of expense stage.

They fool themself into the hokey pokey making it seem hoku pokus.
You put your red sep in, you put your magenta mask out... mix yourself up and leave it till next week.

clarity of
as present, or as presented. the imager, picturing the present


past perfect
working in the silver mine until becoming lost in the dye cloud
digging in the silver mine looking for a dye cloud
becoming 

past & future
in printed times a subscription gave you the future issues. in digital days a subscription entitles you to the past issues

in 40 years
there will be more of yesterday's rain, then of you.
crying helps everything
electronics, avionics, photornics, histrionics

skill is a manifold

[overnight]
novice (is the amateur)

Aperture as magazine. Glad that it has changed; no longer featuring the “perennial question” getting to the millennial quest.
Small blooms


A perennial question produced only small blooms; luckily it hasn’t taken over the garden

past participle poets
searching for shy photograph

4.26.21