Inv. No.S-0647
Title
from the series "Selected Industrial Studies"Looking west over the Chicago River, spanned by draw-bridges which link the North Side with Wacker Drive.
Year1930s, vintage
Medium
gelatin silver print mounted on cardboard
Dimensions41 x 34 cm
Signature
signed (pencil) on mount recto; notice on back board: "Personal Property of Charles … (illegible)
Comment
Korth, of German origins and emigrated to America in 1926, was a popular magazine and architecture photographer in the 1930s. These images are linked by a clearly structured image composition and a high-contrast lighting, whereby the plasticity the pictured objects or the well-designed perspective is highlighted.
(Fritz Simak)
Fred G. Korth, Looking west over the Chicago River, spanned by draw-bridges which link the North Side with Wacker Drive., 1930s
S-0647, Front view
© Estate of Fred G. Korth
S-0647, Front view
© Estate of Fred G. Korth
Fred G. Korth, Looking west over the Chicago River, spanned by draw-bridges which link the North Side with Wacker Drive., 1930s
S-0647, Back view
S-0647, Back view
Fred G. Korth, Towering buildings look down the Michigan Avenue Bridge at the original site of Fort Dearborn, 1930s
more infoS-0648, Front view© Estate of Fred G. Korth