Goodyear #5, Niagara Falls, New York

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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

Date

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.)

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department

Graphic Arts

Data Source

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Topic

Landscape\New York\Niagara Falls

Architecture\industry\power plant

Architecture\industry\Goodyear #5

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7bbaeb91c-23af-4720-9e0f-cdf7c62d0c69

Record ID

saam_1991.27.3