Word: icarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uplift," such as Powerhouse Mechanic, 1925. He hit the peak of this imagery in 1930, when he began to document that marvel of audacity and skill, the construction of the Empire State Building. As Trachtenberg remarks, Hine's Empire State series, with its daring calligraphy of girders and Icarian figures treading on air, "participates in the making of the tower by serving as its faithful reflection - its self-consciousness, one might say. It is as if the making of the tower, an epitome of the constructive potential of labor, photographs itself." The Empire State is no longer the world...