Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power

Photographer Paul Shambroom’s new exhibit at the Weisman Art Museum, Picturing Power, features images of people, places, and things that exert an influence on our daily lives. The photos in this exhibition all involve aspects of power—economic, political, military—and are arresting in their quiet matter-of-factness.

*All dimensions are inches

Valspar Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota (paint), 1987
Pigmented inkjet on paper
24 x 30

Photo by Paul Shambroom

Control Data Corporation, Bloomington, Minnesota (computer disk drives), 1986
Pigmented inkjet on paper
24 x 30

Photo by Paul Shambroom

General Mills, Inc. (#5), Golden Valley, Minnesota, 1989
Pigmented inkjet on paper
24 x 30

Photo by Paul Shambroom

B83 one-megaton nuclear gravity bombs in Weapons Storage Area,
Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, 1995
Color coupler print
48 x 61
Courtesy of the Artist and the Artist Pension Trust, NY

Photo by Paul Shambroom

Lee, New Hampshire (population 4,145) Board of Selectmen, January 27, 2003, 2003
Left to right: Dwight Barney (chairman), Joseph Ford, Richard Wellington
Pigmented inkjet on canvas with varnish
33 x 66

Photo by Paul Shambroom

Level A Hazmat suit, yellow (“Disaster City” National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center, Texas Engineering and Extension Service [TEEX], College Station, Texas), 2004
Pigmented inkjet on canvas with varnish 63 x 38
Courtesy of the Artist and the Artist Pension Trust, NY

Photo by Paul Shambroom

Bomb suits on road (Hazardous Devices School, FBI and U.S. Army, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama), 2007
Pigmented inkjet on paper, 24 x 30

Photo by Paul Shambroom