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[Hydro-generators, Niagara Falls Power Co., Niagara, New York]

[Hydro-generators, Niagara Falls Power Co., Niagara, New York]

Artist Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904–1971)

Date1928 (negative), ca. 1965 (print)

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 19 1/4 × 15 1/2 inches (48.9 × 39.4 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
Gelatin silver prints
Balconies
Industrial locations
Machinery
Railings
Steps

Object number65.554

Label CopyBourke-White’s close-ups of dynamos at the Niagara Falls power plant showed an increasingly sophisticated formal vocabulary that began to probe the abstraction of the machine. This gradual shift foreshadowed the sharp detail of her later photographs and reflected the work of contemporaries like Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler. ("Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist," curated by Stephanie Wiles and presented at the Johnson Museum January 24 - June 7, 2015)

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