Utah Copper Mine Panorama, Bingham Canyon, Utah
Cliff Bray Photos American
Publisher Carpenter Paper Company of Utah American
Not on view
This chromolithograph of the continent's oldest open-pit copper mine and largest man-made excavation relates to a major photo-work in the Met collection by Earthworks artist Robert Smithson, namely his "Bingham Copper Mining Pit--Utah" of 1973 (See 2001.293). The subject of Smithson's piece is a proposed land reclamation project of the mine seen here around 1930, at a time when the mine was still active and not yet a spent industrial site that Smithson sought to transform.
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