{"product_id":"steel-town-stephen-shore","title":"STEEL TOWN - Stephen Shore","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" color=\"#000000\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe images Stephen Shore took in 1977 of scenes from the Rust Belt captured the start of a slow-rolling social catastrophe.\u003c\/strong\u003e” – \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn astonishing series ... images from forty years ago which echo the economic and societal turmoil of America today ... A structure of luminous formalism lets the sharp reality of economic hardship show through, under an autumnal light in which the fall of dead leaves echoes the tragedy of the steelworkers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e” – \u003c\/span\u003eLibération\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“\u003cstrong\u003eShore shot the commonplace and made it seem suddenly arresting ... There is a sense of someone discovering a whole new world of surprises under his nose: an America so obvious as to go unnoticed.\u003c\/strong\u003e” – \u003cem\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn 1977, Stephen Shore travelled across New York state, Pennsylvania, and eastern Ohio – an area in the midst of industrial decline that would eventually be known as the Rust Belt. Shore met steelworkers who had been thrown out of work by plant closures and photographed their suddenly fragile world: deserted factories, lonely bars, dwindling high streets, and lovingly decorated homes. Across these images, a prosperous middle America is seen teetering on the precipice of disastrous decline. Hope and despair alike lurk restlessly behind the surfaces of shop fronts, domestic interiors, and the fraught expressions of those who confront Shore’s 4x5” view camera. Originally commissioned as an extended photographic report for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFortune Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein the vein of Walker Evans, Shore’s multifaceted investigation has only gained political salience in the intervening years. Shore’s subjects – including workers, union leaders, and family members – had voted for Jimmy Carter the year preceding his visit; now he found them disillusioned with the new president, fated to leave behind the Democratic party and become the ‘Reagan Democrats’. Through unfailingly engrossing images by one of the world’s acknowledged masters,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSteel Town\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eprovides an immersive portrait of a time and place whose significance to our own is ever more urgent. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWith a text by Helen C. Epstein, author, translator and professor of human rights and public health.\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial;\" face=\"Arial\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eEmbossed hardback with tip-in\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 30cm, 104 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eApril 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACKBOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42135334420704,"sku":"","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0345\/2121\/9205\/products\/cover495_860x_fc257e4d-0beb-4518-8c7b-8db3f04e87a0.jpg?v=1642033939","url":"https:\/\/todomodo.live\/en\/products\/steel-town-stephen-shore","provider":"Todo Modo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}