100 Boots Try Again, Del Mar, California, June 24, 1972

From 1971 to 1973, Eleanor Antin staged 100 rubber boots in various settings across the United States—riding a roller coaster, visiting a museum, marching up a hill—and mailed postcards of the images to 1,000 recipients. Each postcard includes a photograph of the boots, title, date, time, and place at which the picture was made. Antin chose boots, in part, to evoke military uniforms, a reference to the continuing death of American soldiers in the Vietnam War (1965–1973). Together, they convey a loosely structured narrative like a series of film stills.