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Archives of American Art  Search this
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Sound recordings
Interviews
Podcast
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audio/mpeg
Uploaded:
Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:00:00 -0500
Copyright:
© 2016 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Podcast Keywords:
interview, artist, artists, photorealism, Goings, painter, painters, oral history, Smithsonian, Archives of American Art, Terra Foundation for American Art
Podcast Category:
Arts
Visual Arts
Government
Business
Non-Profit
Society & Culture
History
Description:
Ralph Goings is celebrated for his highly-detailed photorealist paintings of diner interiors, countertop still lives, and antique pick-up trucks. In 2009 the Archives of American Art interviewed Goings for its oral history program. In this excerpt, he talks about a turning point in his career in 1963, when he began photographing subjects for his paintings. Through photographs he found a different way of seeing the world. This interview was funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Duration:
1088 SECS
Author:
smithsonianaaa@gmail.com (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
Subtitle:
Goings talks about a turning point in his career in 1963, when he began photographing subjects for his paintings.
Size:
4.4 MB
Topic:
Art  Search this
American  Search this
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Oral History Collection from the Archives of American Art
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Archives of American Art
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