A blue-saturated photograph of a desert landscape at night with a winding road in the foreground and mountains in the background.
Sim Chi Yin, Singaporean (b. Singapore 1978), Mountain range surrounding the Nevada Test Site, November 2017. From the series Most People Were Silent. Archival pigment print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, 2020.181. © Sim Chi Yin; image courtesy of the artist. Photo © Sim Chi Yin. Courtesy of the artist
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Sim Chi Yin, Singaporean (b. Singapore 1978), Mountain range surrounding the Nevada Test Site, November 2017. From the series Most People Were Silent. Archival pigment print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, 2020.181. © Sim Chi Yin; image courtesy of the artist. Photo © Sim Chi Yin. Courtesy of the artist

A photograph of a desert landscape at night, saturated with a deep blue tone. There is a narrow road at the center of the photograph, cutting through low shrubs in the foreground as it winds toward a craggy mountain range in the background.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2020.181
People
Sim Chi Yin, Singaporean (Singapore born 1978)
Title
Mountain range surrounding the Nevada Test Site
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Most People Were Silent
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
November 2017
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Nevada
Culture
Singaporean
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370152

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Archival pigment print
Technique
Pigment print
Dimensions
76.2 × 113 cm (30 × 44 1/2 in.)
mat: 98.4 × 134.6 cm (38 3/4 × 53 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: On verso, l.l., in black ink: Sim Chi Yin
  • inscription: On verso, l.l., in black ink: 1/10 Sim Chi Yin [over] from 'Most People Were Silent', 2017

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sim Chi Yin, sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2020.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
1/10 + 2 AP

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs
Copyright
© Sim Chi Yin
Accession Year
2020
Object Number
2020.181
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Makeda Best, ed., Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2021), Cover, p. 80, cat. no. 21, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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