Madrid, New Mexico
Photographer
Ralph Looney
(1924 Lexington, Kentucky - 2000 Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Date1960
Medium35 mm color slide
Dimensions15/16 × 1 3/8 in. (2.4 × 3.4 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of the Estate of Ralph and Clarabelle Looney
Object numberPA2006.021.400
DescriptionTwo-story wooden houses line a paved road through Madrid, New Mexico. The houses are wooden-sided with peaked roofs. The wooden exterior walls are white with sun-bleached planks where the paint has flaked off. There is an abandoned mine works on the hill behind the houses, near the right background. There is a large shadow of a house behind the camera is in the foreground and lower left corner of the frame. An abandoned, rusted car is parked in the high grass in the partially-shadowed foreground.On View
Not on view
ca. 1978
ca. 1978
ca. 1960