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Pulverizer Building, Coke Ovens - River Rouge Plant, Detroit
Creator
Charles SheelerAmerican Photographer · 1883–1965
All works by this person →> My interest in photography, paralleling that in painting, has been based on admiration for its possibility of accounting for the visual world with an exactitude not equaled by any other medium. The difference in the manner of arrival at their destination--the painting being the result of a composite image and the photograph being the result of a single image--prevents these media from being comp
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- negative 1927; print by 1941
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Sheeler's 1927 photographic commission to document the Ford Motor Company's River Rouge factory outside Detroit resulted in a series of photographs and paintings that cele-brate industry as a subject of beauty and pre-cision. He treated both media equally and never saw one replacing the other, for, as he explained, "the painting being the result of a composite image and the photograph being the result of a single image--prevents the media from being competitive."
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