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Fan, New York, 1937
193713 15/16 x 11 in. (35.4 x 27.9 cm)
André Kertész
United States (Budapest, Hungaria, 1894 - 1985)
Object Type:
Photograph
Medium and Support:
Gelatin silver print
Credit Line:
Gift of the Genesee Valley School Development Assocation
Accession Number:
1970.12
Location: Not currently on view
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 Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
[label text for Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
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This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Modern Icon: The Machine as Subject in American Art Memorial Art Gallery 2/3/2012 - 5/6/2012
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