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As a prisoner in the Nisko labor camp in Poland in 1939 and 1940, Leo Haas painted portraits of SS men in exchange for extra food rations and art supplies. He also documented the daily lives of…
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Leo Haas
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Nisko, Poland
Date:
1939
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Bruce Davidson took a series of photographs documenting the construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. This one, with its dramatic, almost abstract composition, was taken in 1963, the year before…
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Bruce Davidson
Places:
Staten Island, United States of America
Date:
1963
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When the Allatini Mills building was built in 1898, it was considered the largest industrial building in the “Orient” (then the catch-all term for the non-European world east of Europe). The first…
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Vitaliano Poselli
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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ca. 1900–1912
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When the Dodge Brothers expanded into full-scale automobile manufacturing on a new campus in Hamtramck, Michigan, in 1910, Albert Kahn designed some of the buildings in what was then a state-of-the…
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Albert Kahn
Places:
Hamtramck, United States of America
Date:
1910