File:Mural at Amargosa Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely a ghost town- Death Valley Junction, just outside Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California LCCN2013631058.tif
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[edit]DescriptionMural at Amargosa Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely a ghost town- Death Valley Junction, just outside Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California LCCN2013631058.tif |
English: Title: Mural at Amargosa Opera House, a remarkable image from what is largely a ghost town: Death Valley Junction, just outside Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California
Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. Notes: Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.; Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it. A recreation hall at the northeast end of the complex eventually become the "Amargosa Opera House," decorated with elaborate wall illustrations such as this one. In July of 1968, Marta Becket, an acclaimed New York dancer, mime, actress, and an accomplished painter took charge of what she called the Opera House. She performed there regularly through early 2012 after painstakingly painting images of an entire audience on the walls, including characters who might have attended an opera the 16th century, from royalty to bullfighters, monks and nuns, and ordinary observers.; Forms part of: Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation in memory of Jon B. Lovelace; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:063). |
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Date | Taken on 20 December 2012, 10:58 (according to Exif data) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Camera location | 36° 18′ 07.18″ N, 116° 24′ 52.61″ W ![]() | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | ![]() |
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Image title | A remarkable image from what is largely a ghost town: Death Valley Junction, just outside Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, California. The community, once a dusty mining, railroad, and mill town, was known as Amargosa, after the desert valley that surrounds it.
In the early 1920s, the Pacific Coast Borax Company constructed a company town there; a complex of Mexican Colonial-style buildings of adobe to house the company offices, store, dormitory, a 23-room hotel, dining room, lobby, and employees' headquarters. A recreation hall was built at the northeast end of the complex and was used as a community center for dances, church services, movies, funerals, and town meetings. But it would one day become the "Amargosa Opera House," decorated with elaborate wall illustrations such as this one. Most of the structures in what is now Death Valley Junction are now derelict, but the hotel and opera house live on, and there are still occasional performances in the Amargosa Opera House that stun many who enter, not so much because of the show but because of the auditorium itself. In July of 1968, Marta Becket, an acclaimed New York dancer, mime, and actress -- and an accomplished painter -- happened upon the little settlement while she and her husband were looking for a repair shop that could fix the flat tire on the trailer in which she and her family was staying while exploring Death Valley. Before long the couple had decided to move to Amargosa, where Marta took charge of what she called the Opera House. She performed there regularly through early 2012 after painstakingly painting images of an entire audience on the walls, including characters who might have attended an opera the 16th century -- from royalty to bullfighters, monks and nuns, and ordinary observers. |
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Camera manufacturer | NIKON CORPORATION |
Camera model | NIKON D800E |
Author | Photographer: Carol M. Highsmith |
Exposure time | 8/5 sec (1.6) |
F-number | f/10 |
ISO speed rating | 100 |
Date and time of data generation | 10:58, 20 December 2012 |
Lens focal length | 62 mm |
Latitude | 36° 18′ 7.18″ N |
Longitude | 116° 24′ 52.61″ W |
Altitude | 628 meters above sea level |
Width | 7,360 px |
Height | 4,912 px |
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Compression scheme | Uncompressed |
Pixel composition | RGB |
Image data location | 32,160 |
Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 3 |
Number of rows per strip | 4,912 |
Bytes per compressed strip | 216,913,920 |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |
Software used | Ver.1.00 |
File change date and time | 16:16, 30 December 2012 |
Exposure Program | Manual |
Exif version | 2.21 |
Date and time of digitizing | 10:58, 20 December 2012 |
APEX shutter speed | −0.678072 |
APEX aperture | 6.643856 |
APEX exposure bias | −1.3333333333333 |
Maximum land aperture | 3 APEX (f/2.83) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Light source | Unknown |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
DateTimeOriginal subseconds | 1 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Focal plane X resolution | 204.84020996094 |
Focal plane Y resolution | 204.84020996094 |
Focal plane resolution unit | 4 |
Sensing method | One-chip color area sensor |
File source | Digital still camera |
Scene type | A directly photographed image |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Manual exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 62 mm |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Scene control | None |
Contrast | Normal |
Saturation | Normal |
Sharpness | Normal |
Subject distance range | Unknown |
GPS time (atomic clock) | 17:58 |
Satellites used for measurement | 05 |
Geodetic survey data used | WGS 84 |
GPS date | 20 December 2012 |
GPS tag version | 2.3.0.0 |
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- The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
- Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive
- Photographs by Carol M. Highsmith