Lot 1093
Clarence John Laughlin (American/Louisiana, 1905-1985), 'Light on the Cylinders', 1945, silver gelatin print, 39in x 28.5 in., Developed in September 1944 E4000-6000 Provenance: Collection of Laughlin Family, Waveland, Mississippi, to the present owner. Note: During World War II, Clarence John Laughlin was hired as a photographer for the U.S Army Corps of Engineers to document the modern construction of the levee system in Louisiana With access to the military's photography equipment that produced oversized aerial photographs, Laughlin printed a limited series of his art photographs on the oversized paper in 1944 and 1945 A selection of these oversized photographs were displayed at Godchaux's Department Store on Canal Street (today these photographs are in the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art) 'Light on the Cylinders' is part of a series of photographs Laughlin began in 1936 that focused on the idea of embracing the industrial revolution and the magnificent of steel constructed metal forms that made up factories and mills.
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