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August 11, 2012
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 was an exhibition put on by the Art Institute of Chicago in March 2012. It was assembled by Matthew S. Witkovsky, the museum's curator of photography,
Eleanor Antin, 100 Boots,
In 1971 Antin devised 100 Boots, a conceptual work that bypassed the traditional gallery system by using the US postal service as a means of distribution. For this piece, Antin literally placed 100 boots in different Southern California settings and had the boots photographed in each scene. The photographs were printed as postcards and the individual postcards were mailed to approximately one thousand artists, writers, dancers, critics, libraries and art institutions at irregular intervals.
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