Ventilators
Artist
Willard Van Dyke
(American, 1906 - 1986)
Datecirca 1932 (printed early 1980s)
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/8 × 83 in. (23.8 × 210.8 cm)
Support: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Support: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of anonymous donor, 2013
Object number2013.40.8
DescriptionTwo tall vertical stacks, apparently rising from a roof.eMuseum Notes
Though he had been a photographer since the age of twelve, Willard Van Dyke didn’t become serious about the medium until 1928 when he met the California photographer Edward Weston and became his assistant. Several years later, the two helped found an important photography movement called Group 6/64, emphasizing the sharp-focus, modernist approach to photography seen in this industrial view. Only a few years later, Van Dyke gave up still photography for social documentary filmmaking, believing it to be the best way to reach a large audience.
On View
Not on viewTerms
- architecture
- industry
- buildings
- ventilators
- roofs
- industrialization
