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Bonneville Salt Flats
Fine art photograph famous photograph titled
Chrysler New Port - Bonneville Salt Flats
by the acclaimed American photographer Richard Misrach.
Artwork Information

Artist: Richard Misrach
Title: Chrysler New Port - Bonneville Salt Flats
Date: The image was taken in 1992 and typically printed later, for example in 1996.
Medium: Chromogenic print (C-print)
Series: The photograph is part of Misrach's extensive and ongoing project called Desert Cantos, specifically from "Canto XV: The Salt Flats".
Context: The Desert Cantos series explores the human impact and presence on the American desert landscape, using the landscape as a metaphor for the country itself. The Bonneville Salt Flats section focuses on a stretch of the Utah desert known for land speed record attempts.

The Scene
The image captures a solitary car, a Chrysler Newport, in the vast, white, and seemingly infinite expanse of the Bonneville Salt Flats, with mountains visible in the background. The stark contrast between the single man-made object and the immense natural environment is characteristic of Misrach's work in this series, which meditates on human intervention in the landscape.
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Bonneville Salt Flats