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Support: 8 1/4 × 7 5/8 in. (21 × 19.4 cm)
Mat: 14 1/8 × 13 1/2 in. (35.9 × 34.3 cm)
Text Entries
This print originated with an image of the Travel and Transportation Building in a publication of the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago. The theme of the fair was “Century of Progress,” celebrating Chicago’s centennial year and emphasizing the positive role of science and industry on American lives. The distinctly streamlined, Art Deco buildings were designed to project a positive image of the future made possible by science and constructed with contemporary, man-made materials. This picture is a detail of one of the signature buildings of the fair. The artist’s father attended the fair and the brocure from which the image was taken was his. He took many photographs at the fair, some are now in the collection of the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The artist used one of these images for the cover of his anthology “Reading into Photography.”