Near Montrose Avenue
2003 · Gelatin silver print
Image: 34.4 × 43 cm (13 9/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Paper: 40.4 × 50.5 cm (15 15/16 × 19 15/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Bob Thall
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Courthouse
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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Bob Thall is an American photographer born in 1948 who documents the vernacular landscape of the American Midwest and urban periphery. Working primarily in color, his photographs frame overlooked architectural details, signage, and industrial remnants with a formal precision that reveals unexpected beauty in ordinary commercial and residential environments. His work engages with postwar American expansion and the visual residue of mid-century development.
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