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Charles Sheeler (American, 1883–1965)
Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company
1927
Gelatin silver print
23.5 x 18.8 cm (9 1/4 x 7 3/8 in.)
Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
1987.1100.1
© The Lane Collection
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A realistic painter as well as a photographer, Sheeler rarely failed to uncover harmonious coherence in the forms of indigeneous American architecture. His series of photographs of the Ford plant near Detroit was commissioned by the automobile company through an advertising agency. Widely reproduced in Europe and America in the 1920s, this commanding image of technological utopia became a monument to the transcendant power of industrial production in the early modern age.