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John Pfahl
Wave, Lave, Lace, Pescadero Beach, California1978

Not on view
Aerial color photograph of a coastline divided into horizontal bands of breaking waves, sandy beach, and scrub vegetation, with two strips of white lace draped across the plants

John Pfahl, Wave, Lave, Lace, Pescadero Beach, California, 1978, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Barry Lowen, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
John Pfahl
Title
Wave, Lave, Lace, Pescadero Beach, California
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1978
Medium
Dye-imbibition print
Dimensions
Image: 7 13/16 × 10 in. (19.84 × 25.4 cm) Primary support: 8 1/2 × 11 in. (21.59 × 27.94 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Barry Lowen
Accession Number
M.82.261.43
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Phil Freshman. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Report, July 1, 1981-June 30, 1983. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.

  • Road Trip: Photography of the American West: Photographies XIXe-XXIe Siècles du Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Bordeaux: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, 2014.

Copyright
© John Pfahl