1. | ![]() | Margaret Bourke-White 1929 Book cover for The Otis Steel Company - Pioneer, Cleveland. Ohio, (Privately printed, 1929) [Otis Steel Company] Book cover Private collection of Allan Janus |
2. | ![]() | Margaret Bourke-White 1929 Title page for The Otis Steel Company - Pioneer, Cleveland. Ohio, (Privately printed, 1929) [Otis Steel Company] Title page Private collection of Allan Janus |
3. | ![]() | Margaret Bourke-White 1928 Blast Furnace Operator with "Mud Gun", Otis Steel Co., Cleveland [Otis Steel Company] Gelatin silver print 32.60 x 25.80 cm (12 13/16 x 10 1/8 ins) (image) Cleveland Museum of Art Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1972.247 |
4. | ![]() | Margaret Bourke-White 1928 Hot Pigs, Otis Steel Mills, Cleveland Gelatin silver print 18 1/4 x 14 1/16 ins Source requested © Margaret Bourke-White Estate 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. |
5. | ![]() | Margaret Bourke-White 1928 Industrial Scene: Tower and Smokestacks at Otis Steel Co., Cleveland [Otis Steel Company] Gelatin silver print 25.70 x 33.60 cm (10 1/16 x 13 3/16 ins) (image) Cleveland Museum of Art Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1974.217 |
6. | ![]() | Margaret Bourke-White 1928 Quenching Hot Coke, Otis Steel Co., Cleveland [Otis Steel Company] Gelatin silver print 26.10 x 30.80 cm (10 1/4 x 12 1/8 ins) (image) Cleveland Museum of Art Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1972.243 |
7. | ![]() | Margaret Bourke-White 1928 Smokestacks, Otis Steel Co., Cleveland [Otis Steel Company] Gelatin silver print 33.70 x 25.90 cm (13 1/4 x 10 3/16 ins) (image) Cleveland Museum of Art Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1974.215 |
8. | ![]() | Margaret Bourke-White 1928 Untitled (Industrial Scene with Worker, Otis Steel Co., Cleveland) [Otis Steel Company] Gelatin silver print 28.60 x 25.70 cm (11 1/4 x 10 1/16 ins) (image) Cleveland Museum of Art Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1972.248 |
9. | ![]() | Margaret Bourke-White 1928 Untitled (Industrial Scene with Worker, Otis Steel Co., Cleveland) [Otis Steel Company] Gelatin silver print 30.00 x 25.40 cm (11 3/4 x 10 ins) (image) Cleveland Museum of Art Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1972.249 |
10. | ![]() | Margaret Bourke-White 1928 Untitled (Industrial Scene, Otis Steel Co., Cleveland) [Otis Steel Company] Gelatin silver print 26.40 x 30.40 cm (10 3/8 x 11 15/16 ins) (image) Cleveland Museum of Art Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1972.246 |
11. | ![]() | Margaret Bourke-White 1928 Untitled (Train with Oil Cars, Otis Steel Co., Cleveland) [Otis Steel Company] Gelatin silver print 32.80 x 25.00 cm (12 7/8 x 9 13/16 ins) (image) Cleveland Museum of Art Gift of Mrs. Albert A. Levin, Accession No.: 1974.216 |