In 1976, after several years of photographing in the studio, I resumed carrying a 35mm camera as I had done a decade earlier when photographing in black-and-white (1967–72). Since then I had worked through some ideas about attitude, color and art in my Post-painterly Polaroids (1974–76), Treasure Tones (1975), and Sweetstuff Candy Polaroids (1978). I wanted to see what I had learned from several years of working in the studio that I might apply to photographs made out in the world. I learned that I could make photographs of found subjects that offered me a similar experience to that of encountering an artwork. I now think of these color photographs as prologue to my current project, Things That Look Like Art.

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