Andreas Feininger

Magnestism

1944

Iron filings forming concentric magnetic field patterns around two aligned bar magnet poles.
Iron filings forming concentric magnetic field patterns around two aligned bar magnet poles.

Andreas Feininger, Magnestism, 1944. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 1/4 in. (24.1 × 18.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Feininger Family 2001.58. Copyright TIME/LIFE

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Not on view

Date
1944

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 7 1/4 in. (24.1 × 18.4 cm)

Accession number
2001.58

Credit line
Gift of the Feininger Family

Rights and reproductions
Copyright TIME/LIFE

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