Justin Kimball photographs, 2007-2016

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Summary

Creator:
Kimball, Justin, 1961-
Abstract:
Collection comprises 80 color inkjet prints selected from photographer Justin Kimball's projects, "Elegy" and "Pieces of String." The images were taken between 2007 and 2016 in small towns in Massachusetts, New York State, and Pennsylvania, places whose cultural fabric and economic livelihood have been deeply affected by 20th century deindustrialization. The images in the "Elegy" series depict working class neighborhoods, abandoned buildings and industrial sites, and people gathered on streets and porches, leaning out of windows, and playing ball games. The images in "Pieces of String" are of the interiors of abandoned houses and other buildings, taken as the photographer accompanied his brother, an auctioneer, to these properties; all that is left, as revealed in the images, are the artifacts of the former residents' lives, and the decay of the building and the contents within. All prints measure 13x19 inches. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
Extent:
2.0 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Physical description:
80 prints
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.11618

Background

Scope and content:

Collection comprises 80 color inkjet prints selected from photographer Justin Kimball's projects, "Elegy" and "Pieces of String." The images were taken between 2007 and 2016 in small towns in Massachusetts, New York State, and Pennsylvania, places whose cultural fabric and economic livelihood have been deeply affected by 20th century deindustrialization.

The images in the "Elegy" series depict small town life - working class neighborhoods, streetscapes, abandoned buildings and industrial sites, and people gathered on streets and porches, leaning out of windows, and playing ball games. The images in "Pieces of String" were taken in abandoned houses and other buildings as the photographer accompanied his brother, an auctioneer, to these properties; all that is left, as revealed in the images, are the artifacts of the former residents' lives (including a box labeled "pieces of string too small to save"), and the decay of the building and the contents within.

All prints measure 13x19 inches. A printed inventory and full artist's statement and biography is included with each set of prints.

Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

Biographical / historical:

Justin Kimball was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1961. He earned a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an M.F.A in Photography from the Yale University School of Art. The recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, an Aaron Siskind Individual Photographers Fellowship, a Kittredge Educational Grant from Harvard University and the Project Development Grant from Center in Santa Fe NM, he is the author of the monographs Where We Find Ourselves, Center for American Places, Pieces of String, and Elegy (Radius Books), from which the photographs in this collection were selected.

His work can be found in over 40 museum collections, including the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), the National Gallery of Art, the George Eastman House, the SF MoMA and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Kimball's images have been included in such publications as DoubleTake, Harper's, and Photo Metro.

Kimball has taught photography for more than twenty years and is currently a Professor of Art at Amherst College. He is represented by Carroll and Sons in Boston Massachusetts.

Acquisition information:
The Justin Kimball photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2018 and 2019.
Processing information:

Processed and encoded by Paula Jeannet, May 2018 and November 2019.

Accession(s) represented in this collection: 2018-0041, 2019-0132.

Arrangement:

The photographic prints are in order as assigned in the artist's inventories.

Physical facet:
80 prints
Dimensions:

13x19 inches

13x19 inches

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