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Windmills on Ridges, Tehachapi, California
198620th century
404 x 506 mm (15.9 x 19.9 in.)
Marilyn Bridges, American, b. born 1948
Object Type:
photograph
Medium and Support:
Gelatin silver print
Series:
Number 14 from portfolio of sixteen prints Heightened Perspectives: Marilyn Bridges
Edition:
From portfolio no. 28 of 50 published by DEP Editions, Ltd.; the portfolio consists of sixteen aerial photographs.
Marks:
Signed in pencil on verso, lower center: “© Marilyn Bridges 1986”; inscribed in pencil on verso, lower center: “Windmills on Ridges, Tehachapi, CA”
Bibliography:
See two Bridges monographs: Markings: Aerial Views of Sacred Landscapes (New York: Aperture, 1986), see pp. 56–59 on American landscapes, and The Sacred & Secular: A Decade of Aerial Photography (New York: International Center for Photography, 1990), this image cat. no. 56, reproduced on p. 61.
Credit Line:
Gift of Philippe M. Salomon (BA Wesleyan 1970), 1995
Accession Number:
1995.44.14
Keywords
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aerial photographs*,
aerial views*,
California*,
science*,
technology,
Western United States*,
windmills
- aerial photographs - Use for photographs of the earth taken from aircraft. For photographs taken from beyond the earth's atmosphere, use "space photographs." For photographs of celestial bodies or astronomical phenomena, use "astrophotographs." [April 1992 descriptor moved.]
- aerial views - Use to designate views achieved by photographing from an aircraft or other high location. When emphasizing the photograph itself, use "aerial photographs." For nonphotographic depictions having high viewpoints, use "bird's-eye views" or "bird's-eye perspectives." [April 1991 descriptor moved.]
- California - TGN 7007157
- science - Use for the group of studies or branches of knowledge concerned with facts and phenomena of the observable or quantifiable world, systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws. [April 1996 lead-in terms added; scope note added; related term added. July 1993 descriptor moved. January 1991 alternate term added.]
- technology
- Western United States - TGN 4011500 (general region): Typically refers to states West of the Rocky Mountains (New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, California) and Texas. The term may also sometimes include the states above Texas (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma).
- windmills
Dimensions
- image Dimensions: 404 x 506 mm (15.9 x 19.9 in.)
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Credit Caption
Marilyn Bridges, American, b. born 1948 . Windmills on Ridges, Tehachapi, California, 1986. From Heightened Perspectives: Marilyn Bridges. Gelatin silver print. image : 404 x 506 mm (15.9 x 19.9 in.). DAC accession number 1995.44.14. Gift of Philippe M. Salomon (BA Wesleyan 1970), 1995.