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Margaret Bourke-White
Suite of Four Images for Ford Motor Company Pavilion (at Century of Progress Expo)1933

Not on view
Sepia-toned photograph printed in a circular format showing three enormous industrial rollers with interlocking gears, a small human figure dwarfed between them
Gelatin silver print, circular vignette against cream paper showing industrial machinery with cylindrical tubes and radiating light streaks, dramatic high-contrast tones in deep black and silver-white.
Engraving or etching within a circular format, depicting railway tracks receding diagonally, with dense parallel hatched lines creating rhythmic ridged textures along the sleepers, rendered in dark brown ink on cream paper.
Gelatin silver print, circular-cropped close-up of industrial textile machinery, rows of conical thread spools receding diagonally, with crisscrossing threads forming a grid pattern against dark mechanical components.
Artist or Maker
Margaret Bourke-White
Title
Suite of Four Images for Ford Motor Company Pavilion (at Century of Progress Expo)
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1933
Medium
(Four) gelatin-silver prints, on pebble paper
Dimensions
Diameter: 9 15/16 in. (25.24 cm) each; Mat: 16 x 20 in. (40.64 x 50.8 cm) each; Framed: 26 23/8 x 20 3/8 x 1/2 in. (66.99 x 51.75 x 30.48 cm) each
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nahum Lainer through the 2000 Collectors Committee
Accession Number
M.2006.174.1-.4
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Copyright
© Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY