{"id":35992,"date":"2013-11-28T17:11:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T16:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=35992"},"modified":"2013-11-28T17:47:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T16:47:56","slug":"beauties-of-the-common-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/35992","title":{"rendered":"Beauties of the Common Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35995\" alt=\"Beauties of the Common Tool\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/common_tool1.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"597\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35994\" alt=\"Beauties of the Common Tool\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/common_tool2.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35993\" alt=\"Beauties of the Common Tool\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/common_tool3.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Among low-priced, factory produced goods, none is so appealing to the senses as the ordinary hand tool. Hence, a hardware store is a kind of offbeat museum show for the man who responds to good, clear &#8216;undesigned&#8217; forms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who would sully the lines of the tin-cutting shears with a single added bend or whorl? Or clothe in any way the fine naked impression of heft and bite in the crescent wrench. To be sure, some design-happy manufacturers have tampered with certain tool classics; the beautiful plumb bob, which used to come naively and solemly shaped like a child&#8217;s top, now looks suspiciously like a toy space ship, and is no longer brassy. But not so much can be done to spoil a crate opener, that nobly ferocious statement in black steel. In fact, almost all the basic small tools stand, aesthetically speaking, for elegance, candor, and purity&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beauties of the Common Tool, a portfolio by photographer <a title=\"Walker Evans\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walker_Evans\" target=\"_blank\">Walker Evans<\/a> for Fortune Magazine, July 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a title=\"Florence Griswold Museum\" href=\"http:\/\/walkerevans.florencegriswoldmuseum.org\/fortune\/\" target=\"_blank\">Florence Griswold Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Among low-priced, factory produced goods, none is so appealing to the senses as the ordinary hand tool. Hence, a hardware store is a kind of offbeat museum show for the man who responds to good, clear &#8216;undesigned&#8217; forms.&#8221; &#8220;Who would sully the lines of the tin-cutting shears with a single added bend or whorl? Or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6,3],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35992"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35997,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35992\/revisions\/35997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}