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        "tombstone": "Nickel Tailings #35. Sudbury, Ontario, 1996. Edward Burtynsky (Canadian, b. 1955). Chromogenic process color print; framed: 89.5 x 119.9 x 3.2 cm (35 1/4 x 47 3/16 x 1 1/4 in.); mounted: 80.7 x 111.1 cm (31 3/4 x 43 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell in honor of Tom Hinson, 2010.492",
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        "title": "Nickel Tailings #35. Sudbury, Ontario",
        "creation_date": "1996",
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        "department": "Photography",
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        "measurements": "Framed: 89.5 x 119.9 x 3.2 cm (35 1/4 x 47 3/16 x 1 1/4 in.); Mounted: 80.7 x 111.1 cm (31 3/4 x 43 3/4 in.)",
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                "width": 1.111
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                "description": "Artist; Laurence Miller Gallery, New York; Fred and Laura Bidwell, Peninsula, Ohio; Cleveland Museum  of Art",
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        "description": "Nature transformed by industry, as it has been here, is the predominant theme of Burtynsky\u2019s work. The vibrant rivers in these images seem to be lava flows but are actually nickel tailings, the waste products of metal extraction and mining activities. Simultaneously beautiful and horrifying, this industrial vista is a striking observation of the devastation humans can wreak on the landscape.",
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-26 23:59:19.654000"
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