{"id":28,"date":"2025-04-17T12:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/?p=28"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:05:57","slug":"at-the-lathe-hammer-and-sickle-factory-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/2025\/04\/at-the-lathe-hammer-and-sickle-factory-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Lathe: “Hammer and Sickle” Factory: Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Margaret Bourke-White<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American, 1904-1971<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Lathe: “Hammer and Sickle” Factory: Moscow<\/em><\/strong>, <\/strong>photographed 1931; printed 1934<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photogravure on paper, 12 3\/4 x 8 7\/8 inches<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gift of Mrs. Frances McClure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013.73.l <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Margaret Bourke-White wrote in her book Eyes on Russia<\/em>, that photographing Russian workers differed from capturing their American counterparts. As the first Western photographer permitted to photograph Russia during Joseph Stalin\u2019s regime, her photos shed light on people and places rarely seen by outsiders. \u201cThe Russians seemed to understand instinctively that I was composing a picture. With a natural eye to pictorial effect they seemed to comprehend that every detail was important in the building up of an artistic whole.\u201d Perhaps inspired by her Cleveland, Ohio, steel mill photos (1928), her Russian images confirm an interest in the laborer. She carried forward this industrial theme as attested by her photo of the Fort Peck Dam in Montana used on the first ever cover of Life Magazine (1936). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Margaret Bourke-White American, 1904-1971 At the Lathe: “Hammer and Sickle” Factory: Moscow, photographed 1931; printed 1934 Photogravure on paper, 12 3\/4 x 8 7\/8 inches […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1564,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}