PHOTOGRAPHS
Graham, Dan
U.S. (1942 - )
Untitled (from Homes for America)
1966
Chromogenic color (Ektacolor) print
9 x 13 3/4 in. (22.9 x 34.9 cm) image size; 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm) sheet size
Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography Collection, gift of Joseph and Elaine Monsen and The Boeing Company
FA 97.72

Between 1966 and 1969, conceptual artist Dan Graham used the camera to document new suburban building campaigns in the United States. His photographs are organized to have a strong graphic presence—often highlighting repeated, rigid architectural geometries—with a social-critical edge. America’s middle-class homes appear again and again in Graham’s Homes for America project as terribly generic, without any sense of individual style, the conformist products of a post-war economic expansion.

-- Label copy for The Photographic Impulse: Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography Collection, July 12 to November 10, 2002.