Object Details
Artist
Margaret Bourke-White
Date
ca. 1965 (print)
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 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)
Credit Line
Gift of the artist, Class of 1927, and LIFE Magazine
Object
Number
65.536
The first photographs Bourke-White took after she moved to Cleveland following her graduation from C(…)
The 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)
