Slab City: photograph of Salvation Mountain with Slab City in the distance

Slab City or The Slabs is a snowbird campsite in the Colorado Desert in southeastern California, used by recreational vehicle owners and squatters from across North America. It takes its name from the concrete slabs that remain from the abandoned World War II Marine barracks of Camp Dunlap

• 1986-1992

• Durbin, Greg
• George, Sherman

color print (photograph)

• Niland, Imperial, California, United States
• Salton Sea, California, United States

• Aerial views
• Photographs

• Knight, Leonard, 1931-

• Alternative lifestyles
• Deserts
• Mountains
• Outsider art
• Salvation Mountain

Point: 33.257928,-115.462354

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Shared Shelf: 8903413

Architecture and City Planning

Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design

Garden and Landscape

Graphic Design and Illustration

Paintings

Photographs

Sculpture and Installations

• Greg Durbin
• Sherman George

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2021-09-29