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A demonstration of the Plinth theme for Omeka S: the museum and its collection are fictional, and the images were made with AI. About this site
Wrenfield Museum of Art
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Water Tower

A black and white photograph of a lone steel water tower standing small on a flat empty plain under a big sky, strong midday light, fine grain. View larger
Water Tower

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Title
Water Tower
Description
One of the few Becker photographs with a structure in it. He liked water towers because they were the only things in the desert that admitted they were waiting.
Creator
Sol Becker on the salt flats, 1976. A black and white photograph from the 1970s of a bearded man in his thirties in a canvas work jacket, standing behind a large-format wooden view camera on a tall tripod on a vast flat salt plain, holding the dark focusing cloth, a pale empty horizon behind him.Sol Becker
Date
1979
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Extent
50.8 × 40.6 cm (20 × 16 in.)
Provenance
Gift of Ann Becker, 2006
Identifier
2006.1.12
Subject
Deserts
Architecture
Rights
Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka S demo. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

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Sol Becker. “Water Tower.” 1979. Wrenfield Museum of Art. https://demo.refbytes.com/s/wrenfield/item/959 (accessed October 16, 2026).

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