Max Baur
[Telephone]

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Artist Max BaurGerman, 1898–1988

CultureGerman

Titles

[Telephone]

Datec. 1938

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 15 1/2 × 10 3/4 in. (39.4 × 27.3 cm)
Sheet: 15 5/8 × 11 3/4 in. (39.7 × 29.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.628

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionWith its sleek industrial design, the W38 desk phone (like its predecessor the W28 and successor W48) epitomized the modern world and society’s interconnectedness. Designed by the German firm Siemens and Halske, this standard German telephone had a molded Bakelite body. Whether Max Baur, who is better known for his softly lit nature studies, landscapes, and architectural images, photographed the phone as an advertising job or was drawn to the subject for its elegant form and symbolic value is unknown.
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