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Smokestacks, Otis Steel Company

Smokestacks, Otis Steel Company

Artist/Maker (American, 1904–1971)
Date1928
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/4 × 9 3/8 in. (33.7 × 23.8 cm)
Credit LineHorace W. Goldsmith Foundation Photography Fund
Object number1991.21
Status
On view
Copyright© Estate of Margaret White-Bourke / Visual Artists and Galleries Association (VAGA), New York, NYMore Information
The industrial landscapes of the United States were influential in Bourke-White's career as a photographer, and reoccur frequently in her works. She had a great appreciation for industrial design, and the monumental, geometric forms of the smokestacks are balanced elegantly in this image. A preeminent photojournalist whose works often appeared in Fortune and Life in the 1930s-50s, Bourke-White eagerly pursued photo documentary assignments for not only magazines, but also abroad as a war correspondent for the United States Army Air Force.
Exhibition History
Kim Abeles: American Air
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 12, 1994 - May 1, 1994 )
American Responses to European Modernism, 1875-1925
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (November 4, 1995 - February 19, 1996 )
Framed and Shot: Photographs from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 1, 2000 - May 30, 2000 )
Modern Art in America: 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (November 15, 2003 - September 2, 2004 )
Facing America: Portraits of the People and the Land
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 18, 2006 - December 17, 2006 )
Running the Numbers: Photographs by Chris Jordan
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 11, 2008 - June 8, 2008 )
Artists on Artists
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 7, 2012 - July 29, 2012 )
Femme 'n isms, Part II: Flashpoints in Photography
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 2, 2024 - January 18, 2025 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
  • On View
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