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Sunset/Cadillac
You might have seen Cadillac Ranch on the blog before.
I went back there last week, hoping that the setting sun would be helpful. It was, I think.
Cadillac Ranch
Amarillo, Texas
photographed 12.25.2014
Cadillac Ranch, 3
Now, if you’ve been reading along the past couple of days about the spray paint extravaganza that is the Cadillac Ranch, you might have a picture in your mind of the kind of folks who go out there to paint up some old cars. Art school students, maybe. Or tourists. Or disenfranchised youth. Or whatever.
But I’d be surprised if that image in your mind included this guy, in his western jeans and cowboy hat, who’d clearly come prepared for a long and colorful day of painting.
Amarillo, Texas
photographed 2.22.2014
Cadillac Ranch, 2
A continuation of yesterday’s post about the Cadillac Ranch, this shot features the tail fin of one of the cars. On parts of the cars that are easy for spray-painters to reach, the layers of paint is several inches thick. And almost everywhere the paint has dripped and bubbled, something which would have never occurred on these cars when they were new.
Amarillo, Texas
photographed 2.22.2014
Cadillac Ranch, 1
This public art installation has been around since 1974, when a group known as the Ant Farm stuck 10 Cadillacs in the ground on the outskirts of Amarillo. The cars – which represented ten models during the big-tail-fin era of Cadillacs – were put in at the same angle as the great pyramid at Giza.
In the 1990s, the installation was moved a few miles further from town: development had caught up to it. At some point along the way, it became a thing to spray paint the cars and at this point they appear to be more paint than car.
You can read more about it here.
Or, if you prefer, you can listen to Bruce Springsteen sing about it.
Amarillo, Texas
photographed 2.22.2014
Right here in Amarillo
Sometimes there’s just nothing for me to add.
This is one of those times.
Amarillo, Texas
photographed 3.20.2010
One Day | One Image 