Caleb Stein
Michael & His Friend Embracing

Michael & His Friend Embracing

© 2020 Caleb Stein

Michael & His Friend Embracing
Michael & His Friend Embracing
ArtistBritish, born 1994
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Michael & His Friend Embracing
  • from the series Down by the Hudson
Date2020, printed 2022
Place depictedPoughkeepsie, New York, United States
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 30 3/8 × 20 1/4 in. (77.2 × 51.4 cm)
Sheet: 35 7/16 × 25 1/16 in. (90 × 63.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Photography Subcommittee 2022
Object number2022.330
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


While a student at Vassar College, Caleb Stein discovered the watering hole where locals go to swim. Since his graduation, he has returned summer after summer to photograph the locals at their favorite spot, such as these two friends holding each other in an embrace. For Stein, the watering hole represents not only a leisure area to escape the summer heat, but also a neutral zone to flee the political tensions that mark American life. Stein’s portraits at the watering hole are the result of conversations and collaborations with the people he encounters there, becoming celebratory pictures of their personalities.



ProvenanceThe artist; [RoseGallery, Santa Monica, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.

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