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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Coal Pier 6--Norfolk Southern, Norfolk, Virginia
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Coal Pier 6--Norfolk Southern, Norfolk, Virginia

Artist Janos Enyedi (American, 1947-2011)
Artist/Vendor Furnace Road Studio
Date2005
MediumPigmented inkjet print
Dimensions24 x 60 in. (61 x 152.4 cm)
Overall, Frame: 30 3/4 × 71 3/4 in. (78.1 × 182.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. by exchange, in honor of David Goode
Object number2005.20.1
Terms
  • Coal
  • Piers
  • Industry
  • Black
  • White
  • Gray
  • Norfolk, Virginia
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a large-scale digital pigment print, manipulated by the artist, of Coal Pier number six at Norfolk Southern. The structure is steel with heavy rusting: the background shows the coal pier extending up vertically, labeled in white paint "COAL PIER 6"; the middle and left foreground show the structure extending horizontally, toward the viewer. Coal Pier 6 is located on the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, Virginia.

Label TextJanos Enyedi American (1947-2011) Norfolk Southern-Coal Pier 6, Norfolk, Virginia, 2005 Digital pigment print In honor of David R. Goode, gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. by exchange 2005.20.1 During the summer of 2005 Enyedi was commissioned by the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in Virginia Beach to create a body of work documenting maritime commerce in the Hampton Roads region. The result was an exhibition at the Center entitled Working on the Water. Enyedi's images are created by the manipulation of digital photographs to achieve an expressive and painterly surface. This image depicts the mechanism that transfers coal from the Norfolk Southern Railway's trains to ships, known as colliers, for shipment to all parts of the world. Coal Pier 6 at Lamberts Point is the largest and fastest coal loading pier in the Northern Hemisphere. At its 1990 peak, Pier 6 loaded 39,529,592 tons of coal, including 1,902 car loads in a single 24 hour period, each car holding 103 short (2,000lb) tons (as opposed to metric or "imperial tons"). This averages out to 1,800 coal car loads dumped per day, supplied by 10 trains per day. Edited By: CW Edited Date: 2007 Approved By: ERL Approval Date: 2007
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