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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2008.303
People
Barbara Norfleet, American (Lakewood, New Jersey 1926 - )
Title
The Landscape of the Cold War
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
portfolio
Date
1988-1991, printed 2005
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/320176

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
50.8 x 60.96 cm (20 x 24 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Each print has title, date, and artist signature inscribed on the recto, underneath the image.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The portfolio was produced by Palm Press, owned by Gus Kayafas, who is offering it as a partial gift.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
6/25

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Partial Gift of Arlette and Gus Kayafas, Kenyon C. Bolton III Fund
Copyright
© Barbara Norfleet
Accession Year
2008
Object Number
2008.303
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Portfolio of 12 original 20 x 24 inch gelatin silver prints signed by Barbara Norfleet.

Print titles are as follows:

1) Remaining house on the fringe of a simulated town over which a nuclear "device" (bomb) exploded in 1955. Nevada Test Site, Nevada 1991
2) Measuring cosmic rays. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 1988
3) Central Receiver Test Facility, Sandia National Laboratories. Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1988
4) Naval Weapons Teasting Base: abandoned. The Salton Sea, California 1989
5) Trinity: site of the first atomic bomb test: 65 miles from Alamogordo. White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico 1988
6) Cables attached to the package containing the nuclear "device" (bomb) to send electrical impulses back to instruments. Nevada Test Site, Nevada 1991
7) Laboratory dealing with radioactive material. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 1988
8) Research on developing technologies for future rocketry and missiles for the Air Force: Air Force Astronautics Laboratory. Edwards Air Force Base, Mojave Desert, California 1989
9) Placing the target inside Nova, the world's most powerful laser. Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore, California 1990
10) Gypsy: mobile microwave device for testing vulnerability of missiles, radars, and tanks to nuclear blasts. Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1988
11) Abandoned Complex 34. Cape Canaveral, Florida 1990
12) Naval Weapons Testing Base: abandoned. The Salton Sea, California 1989

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