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Photograph
Fan, New York, 1937
André Kertész, (Budapest, Hungary, 1894 - 1985)
Kertész, André
United States
1894 - 1985
Male
13 15/16 x 11 in. (35.4 x 27.9 cm)
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Gelatin silver print
Gelatin silver print
1937
1937
1937
Photograph
André Kertész’s photo of an arm threaded through a fan hints at the vulnerability of the human body to the awesome power of the machine. During what is now called the “machine age” (1918-1941), American culture was preoccupied with innovations in technology and industrialization. While machines offered the average individual unprecedented lifestyle improvements, a threat hovered beneath the promise—the machine needed to be controlled.
[label text for <em>Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art</em> exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
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1970.12
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
70.12DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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70.12DI#2
digital image
11/18/2011
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