“Gorson, a student and admirer of the dark scenes in the work of American painter James McNeill Whistler, found his métier in his newly adopted city, America’s mecca of industry.”
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Standard Oil hired photographer Gordon Parks to create propaganda which is nonetheless also astonishing art.
“Today, future prospects for greater Pittsburgh are decoupled from the prospects of the steel industry, a reality that remains difficult to accept for a region identified for so long with the once monolithic industry.”
“Lei shows the paradox at the heart of modern government: how enlightenment has been turned into management.”
What coal disaster memorials say about a changing Appalachia
