At Dusk
date: label: date made
content: before 1937
name: label: maker
content: Fassbender, Adolf
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content: From <i>Pictorial Artistry: The Dramatization of the Beautiful in Photography</i>
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content: "Five p.m. a winter evening. The sun is about to set but still desperately tries to penetrate the heavy atmosphere. The thick blue haze seems to creep between the man-made canyons partly obscuring the great buildings until they appear like colossal ghosts with multitudes of black eyes. Above tower the spires of a dream city, only visible in outline leaving to your imagination the details of the thousands of windows and lofts, where millions of people struggle for their existence.
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content: Composition:
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content: Pyramidal. From the almost invisible dusky blue foreground, the buildings mass one higher than the other, until we reach the horizon line with its graceful, cathedral-like towers, bathed in an impenetrable veil of a bright orange hue, interrupted by purple etched clouds. The tower on the right side is of great importance in the balance of the composition, permitting the group of tall towers to be placed off center to the left.
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content: Technical Problems:
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content: The exposure was made against the light source itself. The sky, as a result, received over exposure which had to be corrected with local reduction. Separation between some of the buildings had to be provided for by groundglass work. Texture was printed in during enlarging to give a more decided feeling of thick haze.
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content: Data:
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content: Camera: 5x7 Eastman View
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content: Lens: Zeiss Tessar
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content: Stop: f.8
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content: Film: Agfa, Supersensative Plenachrome
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content: Exposure: 3 seconds
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content: Print: Defender Velour Black"
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content: by Adolf Fassbender, 1937
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Adolf Fassbender, Pictorial Artistry
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.004116.10
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content: 4116.10
label: accession number
content: 146001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
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content: photogravure
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 11 in x 8 in; 27.94 cm x 20.32 cm