New Mexico
Photograph
ca. 1950 (photographed)
ca. 1950 (photographed)
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| Place of origin |
Black and white photograph of a solitary car driving through a desert dramatically lit by shafts of sunlight breaking through a dark and stormy sky.
The caption reads: New Mexico ('New Mexico is a vast land - 123000 square miles of arid and sandy country, with flat deserts and isolated peaks, dry winds to sift the dunes, and hardly any rainfall. In this shifting, dry sea, by the light through a hole in the clouds, how insignificant is the favourite invention of man - the automobile').
The caption reads: New Mexico ('New Mexico is a vast land - 123000 square miles of arid and sandy country, with flat deserts and isolated peaks, dry winds to sift the dunes, and hardly any rainfall. In this shifting, dry sea, by the light through a hole in the clouds, how insignificant is the favourite invention of man - the automobile').
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | New Mexico (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin-silver print |
| Brief description | Black and white photograph of a solitary car driving through a dramatically lit desert, phtographed by Ernst Haas, New Mexico, ca. 1950 |
| Physical description | Black and white photograph of a solitary car driving through a desert dramatically lit by shafts of sunlight breaking through a dark and stormy sky. The caption reads: New Mexico ('New Mexico is a vast land - 123000 square miles of arid and sandy country, with flat deserts and isolated peaks, dry winds to sift the dunes, and hardly any rainfall. In this shifting, dry sea, by the light through a hole in the clouds, how insignificant is the favourite invention of man - the automobile'). |
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| Credit line | Given by John and Judith Hillelson |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.99-2003 |
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| Record created | May 13, 2003 |
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