Shaped by Fire: Photographers’ stories of access to steel mills and other industrial

sites

By Howard BossenEric FreedmanJulie Mianecki

School of Journalism, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824 USA

Conference on Media Culture: Art. Communication, Technologies

Vytautas Magnus UniversityKaunas, Lithuania

April 12, 2012

Figure 1, Hugo van Werden, German8-panel panorama of the Kruppsche Gußstahlfabrik (Krupp Steel Works),

1864Albumen prints, Historische Archiv Krupp, Essen, Germany

Figure 2, Margaret Bourke-White, American, c. 1928, Self-portrait, Otis

Steel Mill, Cleveland, Ohio,Sepia-toned gelatin silver print

Margaret Bourke-White ArchiveSyracuse University Library

Figure 3, Margaret Bourke-White, American, 1930, Bourke-White with Russian assistants, assistant on left holds her view

camera while the one on the right holds her film camera.Margaret Bourke-White Archive, Syracuse University Library

Figure 4, Margaret Bourke-White, American, 1930, Iron Puddler, Red

October Rolling Mill, Stalingrad, USSR, Gelatin Silver print

Margaret Bourke-White ArchiveSyracuse University Library

Figure 5, Peter Nyblom, Swedish, 19??Untitled portrait from Fagersta, Sweden steel plant

Gelatin silver printCourtesy of the photographer

Figure 6, Philipp Rittermann, Peruvian-born American, 1985, Interior of the Exxon Valdez

Archival pigment print on Baryta paperCourtesy of the photographer

Figure 7, Jamey Stillings, American, April 28, 2009, Arizona Arch Segment

from The Bridge at Hoover Dam, Digital print

Courtesy of the photographerEvening view of the Arizona arch segment from

the dam. Transmission towers between the dam and bridge support power lines coming from the

powerhouse out of the canyon.

Figure 8, Stéphane Couturier, French, 2000, Seoul Yoido Dong #1,

C-printMusée de la Photographie

Charleroi, Belgium

Figure 9, Edward Burtynsky, Canadian, 2005, Bao Steel #2, Shanghai, China

Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University

Figure 10, Catherine Yass, British, 1996, Steel: Hot Strip Mill

Ilfachrome transparency light box

Figure 11, Michael Schultz, American, 2007, Cutter, AmeriCast Technologies, Amite Foundry & Machine

Digital print, Courtesy of the photographer

Figure 12, Uwe Niggemeier, German, 2007, Latrobe Specialty Steel, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Changing the AOD-vesselAnalog film, digital ink jet printBroad Art Museum at Michigan State University

Figure 13, Mark Perrott, American, 1981, Eliza, Fallen FurnaceSelenium-toned gelatin silver printCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Figure 14, Bernard Bay, Belgium, 1983,

[Worker in Hat and Goggles]Gelatin silver print

Musée de la PhotographieCharleroi, Belgium

Figure 15, Theo Anderson, American, 2005, Number 2 Machine Shop,

from the series Where’s Joe?, The Ghost of Bethlehem SteelPigment print, Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University

Contact:Howard Bossen, bossen@msu.edu

Eric Freedman, freedma5@msu.edu

Michigan State UniversityEast Lansing, Michigan, USA