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Title: Richard Serra sculpture
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Gulker, Chris
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1983
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption reads: "Richard Serra stands between two slabs of steel at the Larry Gagosian Gallery. In the early '70s, when Serra's career was starting to take off, a crew foreman was killed when a steel slab fell during an installation in Minneapolis. Serra says, "I think it kept me clean. I think it gave me a distance". Photograph dated: June 12, 1983.; The two slabs of steel are Richard Serra's sculpture titled "Plunge". It consists of Cor-Ten steel, 2 slabs, 8' by 8' by 9" and was installed for a Richard Serra exhibition at the Larry Gagosian Gallery, 510 North Robertson Blvd., May 14-June 25, 2983.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00078274
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b044_f3_i30
CARL0000079657
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24616
Subject: Serra, Richard,--1938-
Serra, Richard,--1938--Exhibitions
Gagosian Gallery (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Steel sculpture, American--20th century
Art galleries, Commercial--California--Beverly Hills
Sculpture, American--20th century
Sculpture, Modern--20th century
Beverly Hills (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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