[Eero Saarinen posed by a model of the St. Louis, Mo., Gateway Arch] / Michael A. Vaccaro. – Antique Print
![[Eero Saarinen posed by a model of the St. Louis, Mo., Gateway Arch] / Michael A. Vaccaro. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7e/7ea5c633e064-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of [Eero Saarinen posed by a model of the St. Louis, Mo., Gateway Arch] / Michael A. Vaccaro. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Eero Saarinen posed by a model of the St. Louis, Mo., Gateway Arch] / Michael A. Vaccaro.
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Eero Saarinen is shown here beside a scale model of the Gateway Arch, the stainless steel monument he designed for the St. Louis riverfront. The picture comes from a Look magazine assignment; the record notes it entered the magazine's library on May 27, 1958, and it survives as a contact sheet frame by photographer Michael A. Vaccaro. Saarinen won the national competition for the memorial in 1948, and the arch was not completed until 1965, so the model captures the design during the long years between concept and construction. Look's coverage of such projects helped bring modern architecture to a broad American audience at the time.
| Medium | 1 photographic print (contact sheet frame) |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1958 May 27 (date added to Look's library) |
| Subjects | Saarinen, Eero,--1910-1961. Architectural models--1950-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 749 × 927 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-211478 |
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