Lot 4180: Buckminster Fuller: Buckminster Fuller model houses

Photographer unknown. Buckminster Fuller model houses. 1946. 2 vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver prints. 19,5 x 25,5 cm. Each with Culver Pictures Photo Studio stamps, annotated in pencil, 'do not release' stamps and typed label, on the verso.
Buckminser Fuller was an American engineer, designer, author and futurist. Among his many inventions, he was probably most famous for his geodesic domes. These two images are of the model for his Dymaxion House, which he began producing in Wichita, Kansas between 1944-45. The orthogonal house was intended as a solution for the increased demand for quickly produced, cost-effective housing, during and shortly after WWII. While reactions to his designs were positive, the houses were never put into mass-production. - Some surface handling marks, surface scratching, one with small folds in corners and a small scratch in the emulsion layer on upper left side, otherwise in very good condition.