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]