Mitch Epstein

BP Carson Refinery, California
2007

A complex industrial facility with numerous pipes, towers, and structures, prominently featuring a large American flag on one of the buildings. The foreground shows a street and trimmed hedges, with a partial view of a tree branch at the top left corner.
A complex industrial facility with numerous pipes, towers, and structures, prominently featuring a large American flag on one of the buildings. The foreground shows a street and trimmed hedges, with a partial view of a tree branch at the top left corner.

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Date
2007

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Chromogenic print mounted on aluminum

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 68 7/8 × 86 3/4in. (174.9 × 220.3 cm) Image (Sight): 68 7/8 × 86 3/4in. (174.9 × 220.3 cm) Frame: 70 7/8 × 88 3/4 × 2 1/2in. (180 × 225.4 × 6.4 cm)

Accession number
2010.99

Series
American Power

Edition
1/4

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee and Sondra Gilman Gonzalez-Falla

Rights and reproductions
© Mitch Epstein

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