Evidence of Water Not Seen, Wanda Hammerbeck

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Wanda Hammerbeck, Evidence of Water Not Seen
Wanda Hammerbeck, Evidence of Water Not Seen
Wanda Hammerbeck
Evidence of Water Not Seen
1995
Wanda Hammerbeck
born 1945
Evidence of Water Not Seen, 1995
Where object was made: California, United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 34 x 49.3 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 13 3/8 x 19 7/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 41 x 50.5 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 1/8 x 19 7/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 27 x 27 in
Credit line: Museum purchase
Accession number: 1999.0179
Not on display
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Label texts

Exhibition Label: "Claimed: Land Use in Western America," Jun-2007, Kate Meyer “…it is one thing for a farmer adjacent to a stream to direct a small quantity of water to irrigate a few acres, and quite another for a stream to become acre feet delivered, via a 400-mile corridor of pipes and ditches, to Los Angeles.” Wes Jackson, Becoming Native to this Place, 1994 Exhibition Label: "Contemporary Photographs: Rethinking the Genres," Oct-2000, Rachel Epp Buller Hammerbeck approaches the subject of landscape from an ecologically minded point of view. Her work concentrates on the way that the city of Los Angeles extracts water from the Sierra Nevada mountains through an aqueduct system 338 miles long. In this process, the formerly fertile Owens Valley has been reduced to a dusty desert. Hammerbeck’s combination of concisely worded text and image adds a biting commentary to a traditionally innocuous subject.

Exhibitions

Brosseau Center for Learning: Wilderness, Conservation, and National Parks
2023
Claimed: Land Use in Western America
Kate Meyer, curator
2007
Contemporary Photographs: Rethinking the Genres
Rachel Epp Buller, curator
2000

Citations

Conniff, Gregory, and Terry Evans, Wanda Hammerbeck. Western Waters: Photographs by George Conniff, Terry Evans, and Wanda Hammerbeck. Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 1996.