Polluting the Grand Canyon
Artist
Wanda Hammerbeck
(American, born 1945)
Date1990
Mediumchromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/4 × 19 1/2 in. (33.7 × 49.5 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineAnonymous gift, 2019
Object number2019.11.1
DescriptionScrubby desert landscape at bottom half of image with sky at top half. Composition is bisected in the middle vertically by a telephone pole with a cross shape. In the distance left of center is an industrial complex with tall smokestacks. Large plumes of white smoke rise from the left and right of the center telephone pole.eMuseum Notes
The image is of the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired powerplant located in the Navajo Nation near Page, Arizona, and provides electrical power to Arizona, California, and Nevada, as well as providing the power for the pumping water from the Colorado River for the Central Arizona Project. The plant opened in the 1970s and has been criticized for its heavy water usage and carbon emission. It was scheduled for closure at the end of 2019 and demolished in 2020.
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