Margaret Bourke-White

San Jacinto Monument from a Helicopter, Texas
1952, printed c. 1970

Aerial black and white photograph of a tall, angular building with a distinctive geometric structure, casting a shadow over a surrounding landscape that includes a curved road and a bridge with several figures visible on it. The composition is framed within a white border with a signature at the bottom right corner.

Aerial black and white photograph of a tall, angular building with a distinctive geometric structure, casting a shadow over a surrounding landscape that includes a curved road and a bridge with several figures visible on it. The composition is framed within a white border with a signature at the bottom right corner.

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Date
1952, printed c. 1970

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard

Dimensions
Image: 10 1/2 × 13 7/16in. (26.7 × 34.1 cm) Mount (board): 15 15/16 × 19 7/8in. (40.5 × 50.5 cm)

Accession number
92.57

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Sean Callahan

Rights and reproductions
© Estate of Margaret Bourke-White / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY

API
artworks/8073

Exhibitions

Overhead/Underfoot: The Topographical Perspective in Photography

June 30–Sept 24, 2005

Margaret Bourke-White
12 works in the collection

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