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Sealed Power Piston Rings

1933

Not on view

On loan to The Met

This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.

Pennebaker was a star photographer at Underwood and Underwood Studios, an agency specializing in news, advertising, and stock photography. This diabolical image, created to promote a new type of automobile engine piston, was included in a 1934 exhibition of the era’s most innovative advertising photography held at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City.

Artwork Details

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Exhibition History

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Title: Sealed Power Piston Rings
Artist: John Paul Pennebaker (American, 1903–1953)
Date: 1933
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 25.3 x 34 cm (9 15/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
Frame: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Photograph Collection, Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School, Boston, Mass. (olv work 490168)
Curatorial Department: Photographs