E MURPHY_CHRISTO_9-15-1976 # 18b
"Running Fence" was a huge environmental art project conceived and executed by the New York artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, a husband-and-wife team famous for their often-massive installations all over the world. "Running Fence" began in the waters of the Pacific Ocean and snaked across the coastal hills of Sonoma and Marin counties in California for 24.5 miles (39 km). These are photos I shot on Sept. 10, 1976, when I was a newspaper reporter. The photos are of the installation's inland termination, on the morning the last of the 2,050 white nylon fabric panels, 18 feet or 5.5 meters high, were unfurled. A Google images search will get you more spectacular color photos of the completed art work. Like all of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's large-scale works, this one was temporary. After two weeks, it was dismantled, and its fabric and steel given for recycling to the ranchers over whose land it was built. These images were never printed until August 2017, when I asked Express Photo, Kansas City's premier vintage photograph restorers, to make digital files of the 41-year-old negatives. The film images were deteriorating, probably from too little time in the fixing bath during processing. Pentax Spotmatic, Super Takumar 50mm f1.4, Kodak Plus-X.
For more on "Running Fence," click the links below.
christojeanneclaude.net/projects/running-fence
eyelevel.si.edu/2010/04/christo-and-jeanneclaude-on-the-m...
E MURPHY_CHRISTO_9-15-1976 # 18b
"Running Fence" was a huge environmental art project conceived and executed by the New York artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, a husband-and-wife team famous for their often-massive installations all over the world. "Running Fence" began in the waters of the Pacific Ocean and snaked across the coastal hills of Sonoma and Marin counties in California for 24.5 miles (39 km). These are photos I shot on Sept. 10, 1976, when I was a newspaper reporter. The photos are of the installation's inland termination, on the morning the last of the 2,050 white nylon fabric panels, 18 feet or 5.5 meters high, were unfurled. A Google images search will get you more spectacular color photos of the completed art work. Like all of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's large-scale works, this one was temporary. After two weeks, it was dismantled, and its fabric and steel given for recycling to the ranchers over whose land it was built. These images were never printed until August 2017, when I asked Express Photo, Kansas City's premier vintage photograph restorers, to make digital files of the 41-year-old negatives. The film images were deteriorating, probably from too little time in the fixing bath during processing. Pentax Spotmatic, Super Takumar 50mm f1.4, Kodak Plus-X.
For more on "Running Fence," click the links below.
christojeanneclaude.net/projects/running-fence
eyelevel.si.edu/2010/04/christo-and-jeanneclaude-on-the-m...