Outerbridge made this photograph as an advertisement for the Marmon automobile. Rather than photographing the car, he chose to isolate the end of the crankshaft, taking an essential part to represent the whole.
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Title:Marmon Crankshaft
Artist:Paul Outerbridge Jr. (American, New York 1896–1959 Laguna Beach, California)
Date:1923
Medium:Platinum print
Dimensions:11.3 x 8.5 cm (4 7/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
Classification:Photographs
Credit Line:Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Object Number:1987.1100.292
Inscription: Signed on mount, recto C [below print]: "Paul Outerbridge, Jr. // 1923"; inscribed in pencil on mount, verso LL: "$125."; inscribed in pencil on mount, verso LR: "5-531 // TR 3032.507";
David H. McAlpin; [Mark Kelman to Waddell, October 12, 1979]; John C. Waddell
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Images of America: Precisionist Paintings and Modernist Photography," September 9, 1982–November 7, 1982.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 23–December 31, 1989.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 28–April 22, 1990.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 10–July 15, 1990.
High Museum of Art. "The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 5–April 28, 1991.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 8–August 4, 1991.
IVAM, Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia. "The New Vision, IVAM, Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia," January 20, 1995–March 26, 1995.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Photography between the Wars: Selections from the Ford Motor Company Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Spring 1988). p. 15.
Paul Outerbridge Jr. (American, New York 1896–1959 Laguna Beach, California)
1924
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