The uncanny side of progress: Photographs by German-born British photographer Emil Otto Hoppé (1878–1972)—a few more here instagram.com/p/CBaV3aTD-7H/
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The control room of the Klingenberg Power Station in Berlin as caputered by Hoppé in 1928
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Rotary Kilns Under Construction in the Vickers-Armstrongs Steel Foundry, Tyneside (1928).
A rotary kiln is a pyroprocessing device mostly used to bake (calcinate) limestone into quicklime—to make concrete... Allegory of modernity
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Sand Blaster, De Haviland Airplane Factory, Hatfield (1935)
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New High Level Bridge, Northumberland, Newcastle on Tyne, England (1925)
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Like the last image etched in your mind when you wake up from a misty dystopian dream...
[Floating Grain Elevator, Hamburg Harbour, 1925]
Large alternator, Siemens-Schuckertwerke, Gartenfeld, Berlin-Spandau, 1928.
and you already feel a slight shiver on your back...
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The Sphinx, Embankment, London, 1910
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Looked out over the Humber teminal Immingham at first light this morning. Through the mist it all looked like a Syd Mead artwork. Huge piles of coal etc with giant pools and giant structures and machines lit up here and there in the gloom. Wasn't sure if I was still on earth.
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