1971
GUSN-194130
Like many of Reed's photographs, this one finds abstract beauty without sacrificing an interest in environmental issues. The image can be read as an intriguing pattern of lights and darks, or, equally, as a warning about the onslaught of trash blotting out the landscape. These concerns, one aesthetic and the other political, have come to characterize the era of the early 1970s.
automobiles
automobile graveyards
pollution
garbage
transportation
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
1 photograph
PC044
Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972
PC044.TMP.041
Morrisville (Lamoille county, Vermont)
Reed, Verner, 1923-2006 (Photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Included in the exhibition, A Changing World: New England in the Photographs of Verner Reed, 1950-1972.
Item
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