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Ralph Steiner American
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A decade after Steiner focused on a typewriter in an exercise at Clarence White's photography school, he made this picture of power switches. Although he later complained that all he had learned in the school was "design, design, design," the lessons obviously stood him in good stead.
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Title: Power Switches
Artist:
Ralph Steiner (American, Cleveland 1899–1986 Hanover, New Hampshire)
Date: ca. 1930
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 19.1 x 24.2 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
Accession Number: 1987.1100.277
Rights and Reproduction: © Ralph Steiner, compliments of Estate
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