Terminal Mirage 27
David Maisel, American, born 1961
2005
Chromogenic print
Sheet: 29 x 29 in. (73.7 x 73.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Sondra and Charles Gilman Jr. Foundation Fund
2011.42
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
21st century
Object Name
Photograph
Classification
Photograph
Not on view
Course History
WRIT 5, Writing Into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Winter 2015
WRIT 5, Writing Into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Winter 2015
GEOG 11, Qualitative Methods and the Research Process in Geography, Abigail Neely, Winter 2015
ENVS 7.3, Ecopsychology, Terry Osborne, Winter 2015
SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection , Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015
WRIT 5, Writing Into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Winter 2015
WRIT 5, Writing Into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Winter 2015
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Fall 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Fall 2014
WRIT 7, Religion and Literature: Revisioning the Invisible, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2014
ENVS 7, Ecopsychology, Terry Osborne, Winter 2014
GEOG 11, Qualitative Methods and the Research Process in Geography, Jennifer Fluri, Fall 2013
ENVS 7, Ecopsychology, Terry Osborne, Winter 2013
ENVS 7, Ecopsychology, Terry Osborne, Spring 2012
ENVS 80, Writing Our Way Home, Terry Tempest Williams, Spring 2012
GEOG 11, Qualitative Methods and the Research Process in Geography, Jennifer Fluri, Winter 2012
Museum Collecting 101, Essi Ronkko, Katherine Hart, Spring 2011
Exhibition History
The Tooele Army Depot is a United States Army post in Utah that serves as a storage site for war ammunitions. Seen in the photograph are aging chemical weapons housed in storage “igloos” waiting to be demilitarized and disposed. When incinerated, they release contaminated ashes over the waters of the Great Salt Lake. These potentially toxic chemicals may survive in residual amounts in the minerals that are extracted from the Lake, which are used in products such as salt lick for livestock and fertilizer. The effects of these chemicals on brine shrimp, a major export product for the state of Utah, are not yet fully understood. Sites such as the Tooele Army Depot are regulated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), or commonly known as Superfund. The law authorizes federal authorities to intervene in the cleanup of sites that release or can potentially release hazardous substances. The Tooele Army Depot is listed as a high-priority site, meaning that it poses significant threat to public health and the environment.
Looking Back at Earth: Contemporary Environmental Photography from the Hood Museum of Art Collection, Friends Gallery and the Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Mueum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-August 26, 2012.
Provenance
Von Lintel Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2011.
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