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[Boats, white and black steam]
[Boats, white and black steam]

[Boats, white and black steam]

Artist (American, 1904–1971)
Dateca. 1965 (print)
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 3/8 × 9 1/2 inches (34 × 24.1 cm);
Mount: 18 × 14 inches (45.7 × 35.6 cm);
Mat: 20 1/2 × 16 inches (52 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of the artist, Class of 1927, and LIFE Magazine
Terms
  • Photographs
  • Gelatin silver prints
  • Marines
  • Ports
  • Ships
Object number65.536
Label CopyThe first photographs Bourke-White took after she moved to Cleveland following her graduation from Cornell in 1927 continued to show industry in a romanticized manner. One can see the lingering effects of Stieglitz and the Pictorial tradition on her work. Bourke-White also mentioned artist Joseph Pennell as an influence: “I found contrast, or at least the beginning of an understanding of contrast, and on a gigantic scale," she wrote. “It is what the late Joseph Pennell sought, and found, in his immortal etchings of derricks, dumps, and smoke stacks.” ("Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist," curated by Stephanie Wiles and presented at the Johnson Museum January 24 - June 7, 2015)
Collections
[Aerial of the mouth of Connecticut River with boats from the Essex Yacht Club dotting the water]
[Aerial of the mouth of Connecticut River with boats from the Essex Yacht Club dotting the water]
Margaret Bourke-White
1950
[Boats in bay]
[Boats in bay]
Margaret Bourke-White
ca. 1934 (negative); ca. 1965 (print)
[Black swallowtail]
[Black swallowtail]
Margaret Bourke-White
ca. 1935 (negative); ca. 1965 (print)
[Newly hatched black swallowtail butterfly feeds on Queen Anne's Lace flower]
[Newly hatched black swallowtail butterfly feeds on Queen Anne's Lace flower]
Margaret Bourke-White
ca. 1935 (negative); ca. 1965 (print)
[Margaret Bourke-White in high-altitude flying suit]
[Margaret Bourke-White in high-altitude flying suit]
Margaret Bourke-White
1943 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[Margaret Bourke-White in high-altitude flying suit]
[Margaret Bourke-White in high-altitude flying suit]
Margaret Bourke-White
1943 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[Margaret Bourke-White practices spinning with Sita, Gandhi's granddaughter]
[Margaret Bourke-White practices spinning with Sita, Gandhi's granddaughter]
Margaret Bourke-White
1946-48 (negative); ca. 1965 (print)
[Margaret Bourke-White in high-altitude flying suit]
[Margaret Bourke-White in high-altitude flying suit]
Margaret Bourke-White
1943 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[Margaret Bourke-White in high-altitude flying suit]
[Margaret Bourke-White in high-altitude flying suit]
Margaret Bourke-White
1943 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[Margaret Bourke-White in plane with pilot]
[Margaret Bourke-White in plane with pilot]
Margaret Bourke-White
ca. 1944 (negative); ca. 1965 (print)
[White Queen surveys South African town of Serowe]
[White Queen surveys South African town of Serowe]
Margaret Bourke-White
1950 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
[Statue of A. D. White in front of Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University]
[Statue of A. D. White in front of Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University]
Margaret Bourke-White
ca. 1926 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)