American Industry

Kim Steele (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

124 Seiten

2023
Goff Books (Verlag)
978-1-951541-70-5 (ISBN)

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American Industry is as much a celebration as it is documentation. Through his unique vision and privileged access, photographer Kim Steele has achieved a spectacular distillation of a variety of icons of power. Some of these places of power are literal: sources of hydro-electric energy, such as dams or atomic and accelerators. Other places of power are more metaphorical: the might of massive construction as only heavy industry can achieve, whether in architecture or ships; or the romance of aviation and the exploration of space.

The photographic images are as iconic as their subjects. Formally pure and powerful in their scale and clarity, they mirror the ambitious and inspirational quality of what are now understood to be quintessential and classic symbols of American ingenuity and drive. Together, the seven chapters, Hydro Power, Aviation, Heavy Industry, Energy, Space, Atomic Energy, and The Future, create a visual tapestry of American industrial power in the 20th century. A testimony of a gilded age of American Industrial might.

Kim Steele is a San Francisco-based American photographer. He was educated at the Newhouse School of communications at Syracuse University. After graduating he received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and attended graduate school at the University of New Mexico, where he studied under Beaumont Newhall. In the 1970s through 2000s, his work was exhibited at the Foster/White Gallery in Seattle, OK Harris in New York, then Charles Cowles Gallery in Chelsea. His work is in the collections at MoMa, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LACMA, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Denver Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, and many other collections. As well as in corporate collections such as Chase Manhattan Bank, Goldman Sachs, and New York Life. In addition to fine artwork Kim Steele has also taken on editorial assignments from clients such as Life, Fortune, Forbes, Smithsonian, Paris Match, and Stern. He also produces unforgettable images for corporate clients include such as EDS, Mobil Oil, Mead Paper, AT&T, Frito-Lay, and Exxon.

6 FOREWORD BY PAUL GOLDBERGER
9 ARTIST STATEMENT
10 AVIATION
30 ATOMS
48 DAMS
66 ENERGY
84 SPACE
102 HEAVY INDUSTRY
124 FUTURE

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2022
Zusatzinfo	120 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	CA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	254 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1004 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
ISBN-10	1-951541-70-7 / 1951541707
ISBN-13	978-1-951541-70-5 / 9781951541705
Zustand	Neuware