Modern Times: Transatlantic Encounters in the 1920s geography the city of Norbert’s birth

the city of Norbert’s birth

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Venetia Scott

as well as never before published images from Hido’s newly released photobook

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Modern Times: Transatlantic Encounters in the 1920s geography the city of Norbert’s birthIn the 1920s, transatlantic encounters between the USA and Europe redefined what it truly meant to be modern. These encounters encompassed numerous sociopolitical and cultural phenomena such as Americanism, Hollywood, jazz, Fordism, Taylorism, and the machine age, all intricately interwoven in a complex network of mutual influences. Modern Times shows that the European isms Futurism, Purism, Dada, Poetism, and Constructivism were also closely