Virginia Beahan
The Blue Lagoon, Svartsengi Geothermal Hot Water Pumping Station, Thorbjörn, Iceland

The Blue Lagoon, Svartsengi Geothermal Hot Water Pumping Station, Thorbjörn, Iceland
The Blue Lagoon, Svartsengi Geothermal Hot Water Pumping Station, Thorbjörn, Iceland
The Blue Lagoon, Svartsengi Geothermal Hot Water Pumping Station, Thorbjörn, Iceland
ArtistAmerican, born 1958
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Blue Lagoon, Svartsengi Geothermal Hot Water Pumping Station, Thorbjörn, Iceland
Date1988, reprinted 2018
Place depictedIceland
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 18 3/16 x 22 15/16 in. (46.2 x 58.3 cm)
Sheet: 20 1/16 × 24 in. (51 × 61 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Photo Forum 1992
Object number92.485
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Laura McPhee and Virginia Beahan, who met in a
photography class at Princeton, began their artistic collaboration with a trip
to Iceland in 1987, a destination McPhee had visited the previous year with her
father, writer John McPhee. Over the next decade, McPhee and Beahan traveled
the world photographing the evidence of humankind’s complex interventions in
the natural landscape. Although this image might seem to be one of recreation
in the dangerous effluent of a power plant, this warm-water lake is actually
the clean byproduct of tapping geothermal energy, which accounts for more than
a quarter of Iceland’s electricity production.




ProvenanceThe artists; purchased by MFAH, 1992.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom left edge: Svartsengi Geothermal Hotwater Pumping Station, Thorbjorn, Iceland, 1988
Signed in pencil, verso, bottom right edge: Laura McPhee Virginia Beahan
Signed in pencil, verso, bottom right edge: Laura McPhee Virginia Beahan

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