Ammonia Storage Tanks
- Photographer
- Margaret Bourke-White, American, 1904–1971
- Date
- 1930
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- depicts
- Leuna, Saxony-Anhalt state, Germany, Europe
- Classification
- Photographs
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 13 x 9 1/8 in. (33 x 23.2 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase and the Martin Schweig Memorial Fund for Photography
- Rights
- © The Estate of Margaret Bourke-White.
- Object Number
- 87:1976
NOTES
Like hot-air balloons, massive spherical tanks of toxic gas hover overhead in Margaret Bourke-White’s photograph of a German ammonia factory. The tanks dwarf two workers standing on top in a visual metaphor of industrial might. Bourke-White shot this photograph for a story on German heavy industry in 1930 while on assignment for "Fortune" magazine. This ammonia factory was operated by IG Farben, Germany’s biggest chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturer and the single largest donor to the Nazi party’s successful 1932 election campaign.
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