The Landscape of the Cold War

Artists

Description

Portfolio of 12 original 20 x 24 inch gelatin silver prints signed by Barbara Norfleet. Print titles are as follows: 1) Remaining house on the fringe of a simulated town over which a nuclear "device" (bomb) exploded in 1955. Nevada Test Site, Nevada 1991 2) Measuring cosmic rays. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 1988 3) Central Receiver Test Facility, Sandia National Laboratories. Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1988 4) Naval Weapons Teasting Base: abandoned. The Salton Sea, California 1989 5) Trinity: site of the first atomic bomb test: 65 miles from Alamogordo. White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico 1988 6) Cables attached to the package containing the nuclear "device" (bomb) to send electrical impulses back to instruments. Nevada Test Site, Nevada 1991 7) Laboratory dealing with radioactive material. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 1988 8) Research on developing technologies for future rocketry and missiles for the Air Force: Air Force Astronautics Laboratory. Edwards Air Force Base, Mojave Desert, California 1989 9) Placing the target inside Nova, the world's most powerful laser. Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore, California 1990 10) Gypsy: mobile microwave device for testing vulnerability of missiles, radars, and tanks to nuclear blasts. Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1988 11) Abandoned Complex 34. Cape Canaveral, Florida 1990 12) Naval Weapons Testing Base: abandoned. The Salton Sea, California 1989

Dimensions

50.8 x 60.96 cm (20 x 24 in.)

Provenance

The portfolio was produced by Palm Press, owned by Gus Kayafas, who is offering it as a partial gift.