Object Details
- Artist
- John Pfahl, born New York City 1939-Buffalo, NY 2020
- Exhibition Label
- John Pfahl’s photographs embody the conflict between progress and preservation. Throughout the 1980s he focused on oil refineries and power plants. He chose sites strategically based on their location in picturesque settings, where he observed a “transcendental” connection between industry and nature. Goodyear #5 complicates popular notions of power plants by revealing an uncommonly beautiful view of a sometimes controversial structure.
- A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation
- Copyright
- © 1989, John Pfahl
- 1989
- Object number
- 1991.27.3
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
- Medium
- chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61.0 cm.)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Landscape\New York\Niagara Falls
- Architecture\industry\power plant
- Architecture\industry\Goodyear #5
- Record ID
- saam_1991.27.3
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7bbaeb91c-23af-4720-9e0f-cdf7c62d0c69
