Gordon Matta-Clark

Jacob's Ladder 3 (Documentation of the action made in 1977 for Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany)
1977

Black and white photograph of an industrial building with a tall chimney stack, surrounded by trees under a cloudy sky. There are wires running diagonally across the sky from the chimney. The image has a vintage look, suggesting it may be from the mid-20th century.
Black and white photograph of an industrial building with a tall chimney stack, surrounded by trees under a cloudy sky. There are wires running diagonally across the sky from the chimney. The image has a vintage look, suggesting it may be from the mid-20th century.

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Date
1977

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 × 10in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm) Image: 6 3/4 × 9 3/4in. (17.1 × 24.8 cm)

Accession number
2017.138

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Harold Berg

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Gordon Matta-Clark
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