Experimental TV Eye
Margaret Bourke-White American
Not on view
Experimental TV Eye relates to a photomural commissioned for the lobby of NBC Studios in the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center. Bourke-White enlarged pictures onto canvas covered with a photographic emulsion. While the other panels for NBC celebrate the rise of radio technology through close-ups of microphones and antenna towers, this work imagines television’s mode of vision prior to the emergence of broadcast television. Bourke-White’s dynamic portrait of the "new media" of the 1930s gestures toward her interest in experimental film, which she pursued alongside her work as a journalist and photographer of architectural and industrial subjects.
