Slab City: photograph of videographer Greg Durbin

Videographer Greg Durbin adjusting his video camera while seated on one of the concrete slabs that give Slab City its name.

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

• Photographs

• Durbin, Greg

• Alternative lifestyles
• Camping trailers
• Concrete slabs
• Deserts
• Foundations (structural elements)
• Hats
• Independent filmmakers
• Landscapes (environments)
• Recreational vehicles
• Ruins
• Video cameras
• Videographers

Point: 33.257928,-115.462354

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Shared Shelf: 8903387

Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art

Photographs

• Greg Durbin
• Sherman George

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2021-09-29