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Weber, Doris Martha
(1898-1984)Smoke and Steam; Iron for Industry; Sunlit Steam.

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Smoke and Steam; Iron for Industry; Sunlit Steam. Circa 1945. 3 vintage gelatin silver prints on structured paper. 2 circa 48 x 39 cm and 1 40,2 x 39 cm. Each mounted to board (some traces of use), 2 signed and titled by the photographer in pencil below the image on the mount; 2 annotated in ink and various exhibition stamps on mount verso.

In 1953 Doris Martha Weber was awarded the "Stuyvesant Peabody Memorial Award for the Greatest Service to Pictorial Photography" by the Photographic Society of America. Five of her industrial images are in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute. Her atmospheric work is exemplary of 1940s American industrial photography. – A few scuff/scratch marks, a few small spots, minimal edge wear, otherwise fine tonal prints in very good condition.