Iron Puddler, Stalingrad

1930

Margaret Bourke-White American, 1904-1971

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Margaret Bourke-White captured this image of a Soviet iron worker on one of three photographic assignments she had for Fortune magazine in the 1930s. Fortune’s editors were intrigued by emerging industries in the Soviet Union, but they doubted that the country would grant access. On assignment in Berlin in 1930, Bourke-White pressed for a visa to enter the country and received it five weeks later. This photograph appeared in a 1931 issue of Fortune magazine.

Title Iron Puddler, Stalingrad

Artwork Date 1930

Artist Margaret Bourke-White

Life Dates 1904-1971

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Gelatin silver print

Dimensions Image: 13 1/4 × 9 1/8 inches (33.7 × 23.2 cm) Sheet: 13 1/4 × 9 1/4 inches (33.7 × 23.5 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F1983.125

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Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil, on verso, upper right: #24 (encircled); upper center: Iron Puddler, Stalingrad 1930 | Reprod. p. 87 THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF | MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE; the following has been erased: upper center, below citation of reproduction: Rolling Mills; lower center: A 7200. [There are other erasures which are undecipherable.]

Marks Stamped in black ink, lower center: A | MARGARET BOURKE- WHITE | PHOTOGRAPH; lower right: ARCHIVALLY REPROCESSED | 1975 ("75" written in pencil)

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(G.W Einstein Company, Inc.,New York, New York, USA);
1983-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Fortune 3, no. 2 (February 1931): p. 64 (ill.).

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Sol

Hans Sebald Beham

ca. 1539

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