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Johan Hagemeyer

1928 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

Hagemeyer absorbed many lessons in modernism from his good friend Edward Weston, but he applied them differently. While Weston's embrace of mechanization was limited the pleasures his camera and Victrola provided, Hagemeyer photographed steamships, gas tanks, and other products of modern technological life. Weston would never have taken such an angled view of overlapping telephone wires zinging with the energy of rapid transmissions.

Artist

Johan Hagemeyer

Date

1928

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987