Batting Practice is a C-print from Hudson Valley Renegades: Summer League Baseball, a portfolio of 25 photographs by Stephen Shore (b. 1947) made at Dutchess Stadium in 2001 and printed at Laumont Photographics by Kylie Wright under Shore's supervision. The image documents the quiet rituals of pre-game preparation — players at the batting cage in the warm summer light of a minor league ballpark — captured with Shore's characteristically clear, luminous eye for American place and routine. Signed in pen on verso.
