Mingo Junction, Ohio
1986
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 32.7 × 47.9 cm (12 7/8 × 18 7/8 in.) sheet: 40.6 × 50.5 cm (16 × 19 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Charina Endowment Fund
Accession Number
2022.120.4
Art Historical Context
**Mingo Junction, Ohio**, a captivating gelatin silver print by Andrew Borowiec from 1986, offers visitors a glimpse into the American Midwest during a time of transition. Captured in the Rust Belt region of Ohio, this photograph measures 32.7 × 47.9 cm, inviting close inspection of its finely detailed image. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Department of Photographs (CPH) through the Charina Endowment Fund, it exemplifies late 20th-century documentary photography. The gelatin silver print medium, a hallmark of traditional black-and-white photography, produces rich tonal gradations and...