Photo By Gail
At first glance, this photograph by Christopher Payne looks almost surreal. Rivers of electric pink seem to pour through a maze of steel rollers and pipes, as if Willy Wonka had traded chocolate for hot pink wool. But what we’re actually seeing is a working textile operation at S & D Spinning Mill in Millbury, Massachusetts, captured as part of Payne’s remarkable documentation of American industry. Continue reading Pink Thing of The Day: The Machinery Behind the Magic
Photo By Gail
In this large painting of pulsating, interpenetrating pistons, orifices, and circuitry, Francis Picabia fuses the mechanical with the biological. The work evidences his predilection for machines, which intensified during a 1913 visit to New York. As one reviewer noted, “Picabia admits to having put all former things behind him, and having grasped the genius of American machinery as the new medium through which his art may be expressed.” The artist also associated this 1914 painting, I See Again . . . with dancer, Stacia Napierkowska, whom he witnessed rehearsing while on board the ocean liner that took him from France to New York.
Photographed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City
In the business world of today, a picture says more than a million words. For a company to get its message across, it needs high-quality images for everything from websites to brochures to TV ads. Industrial photography is a specialized field that helps companies show their industrial processes, machines, and manufacturing techniques to customers and other businesses. The photos need to be shiny and have well-balanced colors and highlights. They also need to show the image in less than a second. Continue reading Industrial Photography and Its Future Importance