Images of the Rust Belt
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: June 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780873386265
Subjects: Iron, steel & metals industries; Photographs: collections; Photography; Scientific And Industrial Photography; Photo Essays; USA; Photography, Industrial; Architectural & Industrial; Photoessays & Documentaries; Middle West; Landscape photography; Mills and mill-work in art; Steel industry and trade
Description: "Over the last 150 years, steel production played a vital role in the shaping of our nation. This was especially true in Youngstown, Ohio, a part of what is now often referred to as "the Rust Belt." In their prime, however, the Youngstown mills ran along 25 miles of the Mahoning River and employed tens of thousands of people. All of that changed in September 1977 when the LTV Corporation announced that it was closing its Youngstown Works.

This part of the country has never fully recovered from that decision, and Youngstown today struggles for its survival."--BOOK JACKET. "Higgin's photography places these decaying traces of the industrial landscape squarely amid the magnificence and magic of nature."--BOOK JACKET.