Remembering the Space Age. - Black Vault Radio Network (BVRN)

294 reMeMberING the SpaCe aGe
Paul Strand: Wall Street, New York, 1915. (©Aperture Foundation Inc., Paul Strand
Archive)
It wasn’t just that I was wandering around and I happened to
see something like that. I went down there with a ( handheld
3-1/4 x 4-1/4 english refex) camera in order to see
whether I could get the abstract movement of the counterpoint
between the parade of those great black shapes of the
building and all of those people hurrying below. 34
that same feeling of anonymity and imposing height extends 50 years later
in an industrial photograph taken at NaSa’s former Lewis research Center.
there a man stands by a swinging valve door of a supersonic wind tunnel. 35
this uncredited photograph taken by an unknown space center photographer
is among a signifcant body of NaSa and aerospace industrial imagery that
conveys the relationship between humans and their tools. More precisely, the
34. Jonathan Green, The Snapshot (Millerton, NY:aperture, Inc.,1974), p. 47.
35. See Glenn research Center GrC Image Net C1956-42070, “Swinging Valve for Supersonic
Wind tunnel,” NaSa GrIN database number: GpN-2000-0014474.