Ford
Motor Company. Engineering Photographic Department
The Ford Motor Company: Documenting the Rise of a Mechanical Age The Ford Motor Company, and specifically its Engineering Photographic Department, occupies a unique position in the history of visual culture. It isn’t an artist in the traditional sense – no single visionary wielding brush …
A portrait built from Ford Motor Company. Engineering Photographic Department's own colours
Every 11 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
