Oldsmobile, Española, New Mexico Size:12 ¼ x 18 inch (31.12 x 45.72 cm) image | 16 x 20 inch (40.64 x 50.80 cm) paper when he escaped to the

when he escaped to the south from the advancing German troops and took a job with a touring theatrical company

The photographs from this trip to Gomel are touched by a tenderness and nostalgia found nowhere else in his work

He served as chief photographer for Condé Nast from 1923 to 1938 while also doing freelance advertising work

Solarized Kodalith with paint over archival board

" This work was also featured in the 1995 publication Curtin Call: Walter Curtin

Oldsmobile, Española, New Mexico Size:12 ¼ x 18 inch (31.12 x 45.72 cm) image | 16 x 20 inch (40.64 x 50.80 cm) paper when he escaped to theArtwork Info About the Artist 1996 Gelatin silver print Signed, titled, dated, and editioned, in pencil, au verso Printed circa 1996 Edition of 25 (#1 25) Unframed "Burt Covit's photographs are full of totems and monoliths, not so much to American consumerism, as to the funny and sad business of America itself. Old weird America, where Cadillacs are planted like vegetable seeds and fortune tellers await easy marks with a late night hunger for the