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John Pfahl
White Lightning, Delle, Utah1977

Not on view
Color photograph of a cracked desert lakebed under an overcast sky, with two thin wire or rope lines arranged in a zigzag on the dried earth and a distant mesa on the horizon

John Pfahl, White Lightning, Delle, Utah, 1977, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Barry Lowen, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
John Pfahl
Title
White Lightning, Delle, Utah
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1977
Medium
Dye-imbibition print
Dimensions
Image: 8 × 10 1/8 in. (20.32 × 25.72 cm) Primary support: 8 1/2 × 11 in. (21.59 × 27.94 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Barry Lowen
Accession Number
M.82.261.16
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