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(INDUSTRIAL) Edison Mazda Company album containing 85 photographs relating to the manufacture of lightbulbs, with scenes of busy laborers and industrial production. The pictures feature unusual close-ups, elegant views of machinery, rows of tubular light bulbs in racks, modernist pictures of heavy machinery (several of which are operated by women), and boxes prepared by male laborers and shipments on conveyor belts. Silver prints, 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), mounted recto/verso. Tall 4to, cloth, soiled. 1920s
A special series of a pictures, with many commercial, modernist views of machinery parts captured by a photographer who was clearly fascinated by the artistic (design) elements of functional objects. In this way the photographs reflect the cultural current known as the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), a German movement of the 1920s characterized by a cult of the cool utilitarian object and predilection for functional work and usefulness.
