Century+Wind+Project,+Blairsburg,+Iowa,+from+the+series+American+Power

 Date: 2008
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/2013/2013.41.1_1a.jpg?itok=fwP6SoBe width="339" height="271" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/century-wind-project-blairsburg-iowa-from-the-series-american-power-85570"]] || Title: **Century Wind Project, Blairsburg, Iowa, from the series American Power**

Artist: **Mitch Epstein** Born: Holyoke, Massachusetts 1952

Medium: chromogenic print Dimensions: 45 x 58 in. (114.3 x 147.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment© 2008, Mitch Epstein / Black River Productions, Ltd.

Accession: 2013.41.1 || Looking down on Blairsburg, Iowa, from a bird's eye view, connections between large-scale energy project and daily life come into focus. As massive wind turbines rotate silently above cultivated farmlands, a school bus drives behind two bicyclists along a residential street. Mitch Epstein's photograph, from his series American Power, reflects on the ever-expanding demand for ans supply of energy. From coal-fired electric plants in Ohio, to crude-oil pipelines in Alaska, Epstein's views of the American landscape survey the social and environmental consequences of industrial energy production.
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