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Robert Disraeli :: Industrialization, ca. 1935 / src: The Guardian

Robert Disraeli, who is best known as a documentary photographer, created a small group of contrived images inspired by Surrealism. Here, industry is introduced as a meat grinder (appropriately, an “Enterprise” brand device) that spits out a stream of automobiles at the cost of the human body. All that remains to be consumed is a hand, fingers spread in a gesture of frightened but futile resistance. The stark shadow of the hand cast on the wall behind recalls cinematic murder scenes. [quoted from source]

Heinrich Kühn :: Portrait of the Artist’s Son, Walter, ca. 1905 / source

Heinrich Kühn was one of the most influential amateur photographers in Vienna. Careful attention is paid to the repetition of circular shapes – Walter’s glasses, hat, coat buttons – that punctuate the broader expanses of dark or light earth-toned patches of colour. The tone in the photograph is the result of a complex printing process in which pigment was adhered to the surface of the paper through exposure to light. Courtesy Kicken Berlin Gallery and The Guardian.

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Teikō Shiotani :: Seashore of Akasaki Minatomachi, Kotoura, Japan, 1931 / source: Tottori Prefectural Museum

The horizon in this picture describes an arc just as if describing the globe itself. Incorporating the technique of deformation, the work was made by burning a negative image onto warped printing paper. The photograph was taken at the coast of Akasaki near photographer Shiotani’s home in Kotoura, Tottori. [quoted from source]