Bottleneck

Rick Mitchell, artist

born 1949

Bottleneck, 2017

Where object was made: Lawrence, Kansas, United States

Material/technique: inkjet print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 61 x 91.5 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 24 x 36 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 71 x 99 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 27 15/16 x 39 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 33 x 45 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Lucy Shaw Schultz Fund

Accession number: 2017.0144

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Rick Mitchell describes the context of this work:
“This photograph of a window near the rear door of the Bottleneck, a bar and music venue in Lawrence, Kansas, was the first digital image I ever made. I started photographing alleys on film in New York City and Philadelphia during the 1970s. I also worked in similar locations in decaying Camden, New Jersey, and a transforming Atlantic City during that time. Alleys tell the unofficial and unexpurgated story of a city… For me, photographing is about investigation and discovery. A walk in an alley is a lucid dream, the theme of which is the unsupervised human occupation of space.”