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1953
GUSN-194075
Reed photographed industrial sites on several different occasions during his career. In each instance, he worked to make the building appear natural to its surroundings. In this approach, Reed carried on a tradition established by painters and writers living in America a century earlier. The ideal was to make industry and the landscape fit together harmoniously as a reflection of America's essential twin assets--natural resources and the technology to capitalize on them. In this photo, snow and ice fringe the Charles River as it runs past an industrial building.
industrial buildings
rivers
technology
Nature
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
1 photograph
PC044
Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972
PC044.TMP.032
Charles (Massachusetts) [river]
Reed, Verner, 1923-2006 (Photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Included in the exhibition, A Changing World: New England in the Photographs of Verner Reed, 1950-1972.
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