Plow Blades, Oliver Chilled Plow Company
Artist
Margaret Bourke-White
(American, 1904 - 1971)
Date1929
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/8 x 9 inches (33.34 x 22.86 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4551
InscribedSignature
Signed in artist's hand
Front of Mount
On View
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Bourke-White became one of the most famous photographers of her day through her work for Henry Luce's publications Fortune and Life. The drama of industrial technology forms the central motif of Bourke-White's early work. Through the careful application of a variety of modernist traits-dynamic viewpoints, bold close-ups, and the repetition of simple shapes-she gave compelling aesthetic form to such mundane subjects as a row of plow blades.
Copyright© Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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