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T he headquarters of GE Appliances ( GEA ) in Louisville, Kentucky, is not much to look at. The factory, Appliance Park, churns out washers, driers, dishwashers and refrigerators, the workhorses of the American home. When I visited this month, there was frenetic activity everywhere I looked: workers arm-in-bionic-arm with robots on an assembly line, or driving tuggers laden with cargo. Combined with the noise—the humming and clanking and whining—it was overwhelming.
But Christopher Payne, a photographer, was determined to find order and even beauty in the hubbub. I watched as he set up his tripod in front of a pen containing the steel cases of washing machines. Soon they would be fitted with baskets stored on a conveyor belt overhead.
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