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- Tower Clock #1
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- Tower Clock #2
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- Gas Pump
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- Big Shot
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- Steam Valve
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- Allis Pump
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- Velocipede Lathe
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- Worthington Pump #1
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- Worthington Pump #2
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- Turret Lathe
Katalina Simon
Industrial Grace
In this series of images I explore the form and details of machines that were built during the Industrial Revolution and are on display at the Charles River Museum of Innovation in Waltham and at the Waterworks Museum in Chestnut Hill.
I was initially drawn to these machines because of their historical significance but as I spent quiet afternoons studying them I came to appreciate their dignified beauty. Beneath the rust and oil these cold utilitarian machines have color and grace.
Artist Bio
Katalina Simon is a British born photographer with roots in Eastern Europe. Her interest in photography began when she was told that photography was not allowed in most public spaces in the Eastern Block. This early experience taught her the potential power of the captured image and that rules are made to be broken.
Her photography emphasizes a strong connection with history and her perceived sense of place and mood of the environments she explores. Her image making forms only part of a larger goal of personally experiencing and understanding a place, a new culture or person.
Katalina is a graduate of the Professional Photography Program at the New York Institute of Photography and has participated in workshops through the Education program at Hunt’s Photo & Video and with New England Photo Workshops. She is an exhibited member of the Griffin Museum in Winchester, MA and the C1M Gallery in Amherst, NH.
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