De-electrified, Philadelphia, PA, 2005.

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De-electrification

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These (de-electrified) catenary wires were captured with a Sinar P camera on Polaroid 55 film (scanned) along the (former) Pennsylvania Railroad's "high line" in west Philadelphia near the university.

The wires are out of context. We don't see what they're anchored to or where they go. Alone, they're little more than abstract lines and shapes.

The composition references a 1936 painting, "Electrification", by precisionist painter Ralston Crawford; see https://hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm:hmsg_72.75 .

Artwork - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian
@mattblaze Smart of you to use film, instead of trying to capture three-phase powerlines with a PhaseOne back.
@curtosis that’s why it’s black and white.