Let's Get Technical

[Terrance]

Thanks, btw,  Sheeler's works, commissioned by Ayer, were
used by Ford for publicity, to show the plant in all her
magnificence, to show the people of the world the
stupendous, perfectly functioning, self-operating machine,
what was in fact an industrial city. Two years later (after
his "Criss-cross conveyors -- Ford Plant, 1927, appeared in
Vanity Fair), he would photograph Chartres Cathedral, the
flying buttresses he photographed from exactly the same
position, as if the two photos were twins. 

"In a landscape where size quantity and speed are the
cardinal virtues, it is natural that the largest factory,
turning out the most cars in the least time, should come to
have the quality of America's Mecca, towards which the pious
journey for prayer." 

		"By Their Works Ye Shall Know Them", Vanity Fair 29

http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibitions/hallmark/timeline/sheeler.htm

Another article of interest: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/14/arts/14KEHR.html



s~Z wrote:
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> www.latimes.com/print/books/20010113/t000003685.html