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HomeContentsOnline exhibitions > Documentary: 20th Century Margaret Bourke-White and the Otis Steel Company (1928-1929)

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Margaret Bourke-White 
Hot Pigs, Otis Steel Mills, Cleveland 
1928 
  
Gelatin silver print 
18 1/4 x 14 1/16 ins 
  
© Margaret Bourke-White Estate 
  
 
LL/33214 
  
Bourke-White's romantic admiration of functional architecture can be seen in her later pictures for Fortune and Life magazines. Bourke-White wrote: "To me . . . Industrial forms were all the more beautiful because they were never designed to be beautiful. They had a simplicity of line that came from their direct application of purpose. Industry . . . Had evolved an unconscious beauty often a hidden beauty that was waiting to be discovered."
 
Margaret Bourke-White, Portrait of Myself (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963), 49. 
 
 
  
 
  
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