Panorama of Cadillac Ranch in the Early Morning - Amarillo Texas Panhandle

After having driven 9 hours through the night, this is the very first image I made on our road trip from Houston to Albuquerque. Getting excited... more

by Silvio Ligutti

Title

Panorama of Cadillac Ranch in the Early Morning - Amarillo Texas Panhandle

Artist

Silvio Ligutti

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

After having driven 9 hours through the night, this is the very first image I made on our road trip from Houston to Albuquerque. Getting excited about seeing signs for the "Big Texan" restaurant, (where if you eat the whole 5-lb. rib eye you won't have to pay the $100 tab), I spotted the signs for the Cadillac Ranch, which is on the south side of the freeway. I decided to take the exit that would take me there, realizing that the early golden hour light and the clouds would complement the art installation beautifully. Thanks for looking. FAA watermark WILL NOT show up on final printed image.

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Info taken from Wikipedia:

"Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, U.S. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm. It consists of what were (when originally installed during 1974) either older running used or junk Cadillac automobiles, representing a number of evolutions of the car line (most notably the birth and death of the defining feature of mid twentieth century Cadillacs; the tailfins) from 1949 to 1963, half-buried nose-first in the ground, at an angle corresponding to that of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.[1]"

"History[edit]
Chip Lord and Doug Michaels were architects; Marquez was an art student at Tulane. According to Chip Lord, �Ant Farm was founded as an alternative architectural practice, kind of an experiment in an attempt to subvert normal corporate ways of doing architecture.�[2]

According to Marquez, �Chip and I were living in the mountains north of San Francisco, and there was a book meant for kids left in a bar near where we lived. It was called �The Look of Cars,�[3] and there was something on the rise and fall of the tail fin. I didn�t have a lot to do, so I just sorta drew it up. I�ve always loved the Cadillacs.�[2]

The group claims to have been given a list of eccentric millionaires in 1972 in San Francisco, identifying Marsh among those who might be able to fund one of their projects. Marsh's response began "It�s going to take me awhile to get used to the idea of the Cadillac Ranch. I�ll answer you by April Fool�s Day. It�s such an irrelevant and silly proposition that I want to give it all my time and attention so I can make a casual judgement of it."[4]"

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March 18th, 2015