Steel Elevator and Shed - near Abilene, Texas

Frank Gohlke · 1975

This is Steel Elevator and Shed - near Abilene, Texas — a photograph by Frank Gohlke, nineteen seventy-five. A gelatin silver print — the standard black-and-white photograph of the twentieth century, paper coated in gelatin holding light-sensitive silver, developed by hand in a tray.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 14 × 14" (35.5 × 35.5 cm) · Credit Gift of Pauline Marks

Hanging beside it in Gallery 511: Bauhaus: View from the Workshops Building onto the Studio Building, Grain Elevators and Lightning Flash, Lamesa, Texas

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Power Station, Anonymous Sculpture, American Landscape, Pipe fitters finishing the engine room of a tuna-fishing boat. Campbell Shipyard. San Diego harbor from the series Fish Story, Lodz, Stock Market. Set design for scene four of the ballet H.P. (Horsepower)

More by Frank Gohlke here: Grain Elevators and Lightning Flash, Lamesa, Texas