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A demonstration of the Plinth theme for Omeka Classic: the museum and its collection are fictional, and the images were made with AI. About this site
Wrenfield Museum of Art
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Sol Becker

Sol Becker on the salt flats, 1976. A black and white photograph from the 1970s of a bearded man in his thirties in a canvas work jacket, standing behind a large-format wooden view camera on a tall tripod on a vast flat salt plain, holding the dark focusing cloth, a pale empty horizon behind him. View larger
Sol Becker on the salt flats, 1976

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Title
Sol Becker
Description
American photographer. Becker photographed the dry country south of Harlow in large-format black and white: salt flats, lakebeds and the few things that stand on them.
Date
1938–2004
Rights
Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka demo sites. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

In the collection

  • Salt Flat

    Sol Becker · 1975

    Becker waited three days for a sky with no clouds at all. The figure on the horizon is his assistant, sent walking until she was small enough.

  • Dry Lake, Morning

    Sol Becker · 1977

    Cracked lakebed in low sun, each plate of mud with its own shadow. Becker printed it dark so the cracks would read as lines on a map.

  • Water Tower

    Sol Becker · 1979

    One of the few Becker photographs with a structure in it. He liked water towers because they were the only things in the desert that admitted they were waiting.