
Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940) 'An Industrial Design - Pennsylvania Rubber Co.' (Automobile Tire Maker), c. 1925 Gelatin silver print; signed in pencil, titled and captioned 'At the control wheel of a great 'Calendar', making auto tires' in ink, and the photographer's Interpretive Photography / Hastings-on-Hudson credit stamp on the reverse, framed. 8 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (21.6 x 19.1 cm.) Footnotes: Provenance San Francisco Camerawork Benefit Auction, November 2016, Lot 43 Acquired from the above by the present owner Literature Lewis Hine, Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines (New York, 1932), n.p. Note 'Cities do not build themselves, machines cannot make machines, unless back of them all are the brains and toil of men. We call this the Machine Age. But the more machines we use the more do we need real men to make and direct them.' - Lewis Hine, foreword, Men at Work, n.p. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
































