Pittsburgh Area Steel Mills

The Pittsburgh area steel mill photographs in this gallery are from a personal project I began in 1981. In wanting to get back to my roots I started to photograph the steel mill towns around Pittsburgh, not suspecting that soon the era of steel was about to come to an end. When the mills shut down I not only documented them, but also the ripple effect of other businesses closing, leading to food banks and people losing their homes.

In 1988 I went to Black Star, a photographer's agency in New York City, and was advised by Annie Stewart, a photo editor there at the time, how to document my photographs and a strategy for releasing them. They also kept about 50 black and white photographs and about 50 color slides for their files. In the time since the information I was given was priceless.

I had two exhibits of the Pittsburgh steel mill photographs. One at the Bost Building in Homestead and the other at California University of Pennsylvania. Some steel mill pictures were published in the books, The Power of Pittsburgh (Towery), Beyond the Surface (Pittsburgh History and Landmarks), and Life's Riches (Pittsburgh History and Landmarks)

PHOTOGRAPHS, PRINTS, POSTERS, AND USAGE INFORMATION

The work in the gallery is not the complete body of work I did. There is a lot of work not on this site, if you are researching images and you don't see what you are looking for please contact me through my contact page and ask if I have it in my files.

All pictures are available for use or purchase through me. As art the photographs are made on 8x10 or 11x14 double weight paper, with archival processing and selenium toned. Editions are limited to 20. I can also do a museum quality mount and matt with acid free conservation and/or rag board if wanted. They are also available as art giclees produced on 11x14 or up to 2'x3' acid free art paper printed with archival ink. Giclees are limited to editions of 250. Color work is available as digital photographs, limited to 250, or art giclees, both in the same size range as black and white. Select pieces are on sale at purephoto.com and more will be added. Click on the link below.

Prints for Sale on Purephoto

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105 Total Pictures