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06/03/2026
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Sidewall in the Vendome Pattern, 1850–70. This object is part of Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection and is not currently on view.
Christopher Payne has spent more than 10 years photographing America’s factories, joining a lineage of photographers who also documented the American worker—including Lewis Hine, Alfred T. Palmer, and Gordon Parks. Hear from Payne about how he began his project by photographing the New England textile mills that were among the country’s founding industries.
The first large-scale photography exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, "Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne" showcases the design process through photography bringing the object, the machine, and the hand together.
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