Nancy Holt, Pine Barrens: Hoofs (1975)

Inkjet print on archival rag paper; composite made by the artist from digitized 16mm film stills

32 x 8 7/8 in. (81.3 x 22.5 cm)

© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

hoof points in sand

Nancy Holt, Pine Barrens: Hoofs (1975)

Inkjet print on archival rag paper; composite made by the artist from digitized 16mm film stills

32 x 8 7/8 in. (81.3 x 22.5 cm)

© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

1973—1976

Pine Barrens: Hoofs

Nancy Holt
1975
Inkjet print on archival rag paper; composite made by the artist from digitized 16mm film stills
32 x 8 7/8 in. (81.3 x 22.5 cm)
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

In 1975, Nancy Holt made the film Pine Barrens, shot in the Pine Barrens, an ecosystem that extends across more than seven counties in the state of New Jersey. Holt grew up in New Jersey, a place that remained central to her artistic and personal life. She described it as “a wilderness of sand and pine trees. It’s the forgotten land of the northeastern urban belt: New York is an hour and forty-five minutes away to the north, Philadelphia to the west, Atlantic City to the south.”

Developing from the film, Holt produced the photographic works Pine Barrens: Trees, Pine Barrens: Hoofs, and Pine Barrens: Footprints, each created using individual frames drawn from the moving image. These photoworks extend the film’s sustained attention to landscape, duration, and trace, translating cinematic time into discrete photographic form.

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1973—1976
forthcoming
Pine Barrens
Nancy Holt
1975
1973—1976

Pine Barrens is an immersion in a place seen through its inhabitants’ eyes, studying landscape, language, and ways of looking—concerns threading their way throughout Nancy Holt’s work. The film starts looking through a car window, Holt filming from the passenger window, rolled down to meet the exact point of the horizon line. It follows her view as she proceeds to walk through the landscape, the camera looking from all angles—up, down, side to side.

1973—1976
a group of trees created from black and white film stills
Pine Barrens: Trees
Nancy Holt
1975
1973—1976

Developing from the film "Pine Barrens," Holt produced the photographic works "Pine Barrens: Trees," created using individual frames drawn from the moving image work. These photoworks extend the film’s sustained attention to landscape, duration, and trace, translating cinematic time into discrete photographic form.

1973—1976
footprints on a sand dune
Pine Barrens: Footprints
Nancy Holt
1975
1973—1976

Developing from the film "Pine Barrens," Holt produced the photographic works "Pine Barrens: Footprints," created using individual frames drawn from the moving image work. These photoworks extend the film’s sustained attention to landscape, duration, and trace, translating cinematic time into discrete photographic form.

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