A striking gelatin silver print by pioneering photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, this image captures the sleek, angular forms of the racing yacht Vanitie with her characteristic eye for bold geometric composition. Bourke-White transforms the vessel's sails, rigging, and hull into a dynamic interplay of light, shadow, and line, elevating industrial and mechanical subjects to the realm of high art. The photograph reflects her early modernist sensibility, finding abstract beauty in the powerful structures of the machine age.