![[Ore Loading Docks, Superior, Minnesota]](/internal/media/dispatcher/84073/preview)
[Ore Loading Docks, Superior, Minnesota]
Artist
Margaret Bourke-White
(American, 1904–1971)
Date1929 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 19 3/8 × 13 5/8 inches (49.2 × 34.6 cm);
Mount (Matted): 27 15/16 × 22 1/16 inches (71 × 56 cm)
Mount (Matted): 27 15/16 × 22 1/16 inches (71 × 56 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of the artist, Class of 1927, and LIFE Magazine
Terms
- Photographs
- American
- Gelatin silver prints
Object number65.550
Label CopyBourke-White’s Otis Steel pictures caught the eye of publisher Henry Luce, who sent her a cable in May 1929 asking her to meet him in New York. Luce recruited Bourke-White as photographer for his new magazine, Fortune. Ore Loading Docks was published in Fortune magazine’s first issue in February 1930 and captured Bourke-White’s modernist aesthetic—starkly beautiful subjects and a fascination with “pattern.” Isolated parts stand in for the whole, an approach Bourke-White used to turn machinery into art. ("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
![[Coal Rig, Berwind Docks, Minnesota]](/internal/media/dispatcher/84061/thumbnail)
![[Loading barge on the Danube, Hungary]](/internal/media/dispatcher/91515/thumbnail)
![[Father Gregory Sontag helps parishoners to dock at Sittee River Mission]](/internal/media/dispatcher/83997/thumbnail)
Margaret Bourke-White
1953 (negative); 1965 (print)
![[Father Gregory Sontag helps parishoners to dock at Sittee River Mission]](/internal/media/dispatcher/83994/thumbnail)
Margaret Bourke-White
1953 (negative); 1965 (print)
![[A preacher and his parishioners, Cleveland Public Square]](/internal/media/dispatcher/84002/thumbnail)
Margaret Bourke-White
1928 (negative); 1965 (print)
![[White Queen surveys South African town of Serowe]](/internal/media/dispatcher/84021/thumbnail)
Margaret Bourke-White
1950 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)
![[African man]](/internal/media/dispatcher/84022/thumbnail)
![[Praying Mantis]](/internal/media/dispatcher/84036/thumbnail)
![[Praying mantises]](/internal/media/dispatcher/84038/thumbnail)
![[Ruby's Place, Montana]](/internal/media/dispatcher/84054/thumbnail)
![[Busch family]](/internal/media/dispatcher/84086/thumbnail)
![[San Jacinto Monument, Houston, Texas]](/internal/media/dispatcher/84088/thumbnail)