Description: Portraits in Steel. Photographs by Milton Rogovin. Interviews by Michael Frisch. Softcover. Cornell University Press 1993. 280 pages. 10" x 9". ISBN 0801481023.Excellent condition. The binding is square and tight. The pages are clean, no markings, no creasing or tears. The covers are clean with scant wear. Free domestic shipping USPS Media Mail. This powerful book documents--in images and words--the unsettling experience of a dozen men and women workers who lost their jobs in the steel mills of Buffalo, New York, and had to fashion new lives for themselves. A stunning collection of revealing narratives that bears witness to wrenching changes in the American economy. Photographs. From Publishers WeeklyFrisch ( A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History ) and documentary photographer Rogovin here collaborate on a mid-1980s portrait of the lives of 12 former steelworkers, male and female, in Buffalo, N.Y. PW saw only a fraction of the black-and-white photographs but these are illuminating examples of what Frisch calls "a presentation of self." Frisch's introduction thoughtfully describes Buffalo through deindustrialization and tentative revival. His interviews are earnest, detailed and sometimes redundant. The workers describe their work in steel, from running the furnaces to pouring molten steel, their family life and how they have coped with adversity. Some have made a successful transition while others struggle: one man is on welfare; another guards the empty steel plant where he once worked. Most striking are the sometimes xenophobic, often uninformed but heartfelt responses workers give to Frisch's very leading questions about the decline of the economy: they presage the large numbers of voters who supported Bill Clinton and H. Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential race.
Price: 27 USD
Location: Tonawanda, New York
End Time: 2023-12-16T23:13:13.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Book Title: Portraits in Steel
Original Language: English
Item Length: 9 in
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 10 in
Personalized: No
Features: Illustrated
Topic: American History, Artists, Buffalo, Cultural History, History of Technology, Industrial Building, Industry, Lifestyle, Modern History, Photographers, Photojournalism, Political History, Popular Culture, Portrait Photography, Social History, Social Issues, Steel Mills
Item Width: 1 in
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Intended Audience: Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 1993
Type: Picture Book
Author: Milton Rogovin, Michael Frisch
Genre: Art & Culture, Biographies & True Stories, Economics, Engineering & Technology, History, Imagery, Photography
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 40 oz
Number of Pages: 280
