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Barbara Kasten
The Center1990

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Color photograph looking steeply downward into a dark enclosed pit, lit with deep blue and red-orange light, with a rough wooden ladder along the right edge and broken stone fragments on the floor below

Barbara Kasten, The Center, 1990, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Acquisition Fund, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Barbara Kasten
Title
The Center
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1990
Medium
Dye destruction print
Dimensions
Image (includes black border): 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm) Primary support: 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
AC1992.139.1
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Copyright
© Barbara Kasten

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