Utah Copper Mine Panorama, Bingham Canyon, Utah
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Utah Copper Mine Panorama, Bingham Canyon, Utah
- Artist: Cliff Bray Photos
- Publisher: Carpenter Paper Company of Utah
- Date: 1930
- Medium: Color lithograph
- Dimensions: Image: 7 1/2 in. × 34 in. (19.1 × 86.4 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/8 in. × 35 in. (20.6 × 88.9 cm) - Classifications: Photographs, Prints
- Credit Line: Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2016
- Object Number: 2016.452
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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