Barbara Norfleet
Placing the target inside the main target chamber, NOVA: the world's most powerful laser: built for Star Wars research

Placing the target inside the main target chamber, NOVA: the world's most powerful laser: built for Star Wars research

© Barbara Norfleet

Placing the target inside the main target chamber, NOVA: the world's most powerful laser: built for Star Wars research
Placing the target inside the main target chamber, NOVA: the world's most powerful laser: built for Star Wars research
ArtistAmerican, born 1926
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Placing the target inside the main target chamber, NOVA: the world's most powerful laser: built for Star Wars research
Date1990
PlaceLivermore, California, United States
MediumGelatin silver print with toning Gelatin silver print
DimensionsGelatin silver photographimage: 11 3/8 × 16 15/16 inches (28.9 × 43.0 cm)
 sheet: 15 15/16 × 19 15/16 inches (40.5 × 50.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
Object number91.1409
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ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by MFAH, 1991.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: Inscribed in pencil at bottom of verso sheet from left to right: "Placing the target inside the main target chamber of Nova, the world's most powerful laser: built for Star Wars research/ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: 11 square miles: Livermore, CA 1990".
Signed in black ink on verso sheet, lower right corner: "(C) 1990 Barbara Norfleet". "(C)" in inscription stands for copyright symbol.

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