At Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, “Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne” presents large-format photographs of U.S. factories, infrastructure, and production lines, seen with a steady, architectural eye. The exhibition reads as a record of how objects and systems are built, and of the labor and engineering that usually stay out of view. In New York City, it lands in a museum dedicated to design, where manufacturing is framed as a cultural force rather than just an economic one. Payne’s images suggest that industrial spaces can be documented with the same rigor usually reserved for monuments.
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