Photographing "Large Arch"
Charlotte Sellers and Her Iconic Shot
Charlotte Sellers, a photographer and regional editor for Columbus, Indiana's Republic newspaper, may have been the first to photograph Large Arch upon its arrival in the United States. She captures "Large Arch," still in its shipping crate, being lifted from a barge in Louisville, Kentucky.
But it's her photo of "Large Arch" framing the First Christian Church tower that seems iconic. Local residents and visitors to Columbus alike move around the sculpture's base while looking up at it; often they pause as the church's tower or its facade are suddenly framed.
Balthazar Korab, Photographer for Columbus
Balthazar Korab, the unofficial, official photographer of Columbus for decades, documented post-war architecture in America. Many of his photographs of "Large Arch" and the Cleo Rogers Memorial Library were taken shortly after the installation of "Large Arch."