Preparing the Field 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 pre-game ritual of field preparation — groundskeepers raking and dragging the infield dirt, the careful maintenance of the playing surface rendered as a subject in its own right. Signed in pen on verso.
