Chicago, Union Stock Yards 

Andreas Feininger, whose father was the painter Lionel Feininger, studied architecture at the Bauhaus in Germany in the 1920s, but from the 1930s onwards was active as a photographer in the United States.
The setting for this shot is Chicago. With factory chimneys and buildings in the background, a huge facility with fences laid out in a grid pattern is captured from an angle. Union Stockyard was a meatpacking factory that prospered from the late 19th century to the early 20th century; it was the birthplace of today’s industrial-scale meat processing industry. If you look closely at the pens, you will see cows and pigs crowded together. And yet, Feininger’s gaze is dispassionate, capturing the scene as a dynamic series of man-made objects.
(MATSUNAGA Shintaro)