Lynn Davis

Temple, Palmyra, Syria

1995, printed 1997

Six-columned ancient temple ruins standing in a rocky desert with a distant hilltop fortress.
Six-columned ancient temple ruins standing in a rocky desert with a distant hilltop fortress.

Lynn Davis, Temple, Palmyra, Syria, 1995, printed 1997. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 54 1/2 × 48 in. (138.4 × 121.9 cm) Image: 44 1/4 × 44 3/8 in. (112.4 × 112.7 cm) Mount: 54 1/2 × 48 × 1/8 in. (138.4 × 121.9 × 0.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Arthur and Susan Fleischer 2012.192. © Lynn Davis

Recto

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Date
1995, printed 1997

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 54 1/2 × 48 in. (138.4 × 121.9 cm) Image: 44 1/4 × 44 3/8 in. (112.4 × 112.7 cm) Mount: 54 1/2 × 48 × 1/8 in. (138.4 × 121.9 × 0.3 cm)

Accession number
2012.192

Series
Syria, Jordan, Turkey

Edition
6/10 | 2 APs

Credit line
Gift of Arthur and Susan Fleischer

Rights and reproductions
© Lynn Davis

API
artworks/42332



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