The world of factories and industry is a crucial yet oft-forgotten fact that undergirds the bustling prosperity of contemporary American life. Photographer Andrew Borowiec has spent his career exploring the industrial fields of middle America, and he now turns his camera's eye southward in Industrial Perspective , exploring the panoramic landscapes along and near the Gulf of Mexico where oil and gas industry workers live and work. Borowiec gained permission from oil corporations to enter their high-security sites and was ...
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The world of factories and industry is a crucial yet oft-forgotten fact that undergirds the bustling prosperity of contemporary American life. Photographer Andrew Borowiec has spent his career exploring the industrial fields of middle America, and he now turns his camera's eye southward in Industrial Perspective , exploring the panoramic landscapes along and near the Gulf of Mexico where oil and gas industry workers live and work. Borowiec gained permission from oil corporations to enter their high-security sites and was thus able to photograph the delicate balance of land, life, and industry along the Gulf. The region's immense concentration of oil, chemical, and paper plants has created one of America's most unique and misunderstood contemporary landscapes, and Borowiec unravels its complexity in his evocative images. The visual sequence of Industrial Perspective reveals a continually evolving area that was transformed after World War II from a plantation system into an intricate and vast industrial complex built to accommodate the demands of a surging American economy. As Borowiec reveals through his striking images, this world of iron, oil, and heat enabled the American dream to come to fruition, yet its unyielding and stark character is virtually alien to those who do not live near the region. Industrial Perspective is a compelling and vibrant collection of images that offers a unique and powerful view of the industrial realities of American abundance.
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Add this copy of Industrial Perspective: Photographs of the Gulf Coast to cart. $68.25, good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Center for American Places / Distributed by the University of Chicago Press.
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Good+ (Ex art library with sticker on the DJ spine and on rear pastedown; DJ is edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; boards are lightly edgeworn/sunned; textblock is lightly edgeworn and smudged; interior is clean; binding is solid. ) Light beige DJ with photo illustration and grey lettering; grey boards with silver and stamped lettering; xvi, 112 pp.; richly illustrated. "In Industrial Perspective the photographer headed south to the Gulf of Mexico where oil and gas industry workers live. The immense concentration of oil, chemical, and paper plants along the Gulf has created on of America's most unique and misunderstood contemporary landscapes. Unlike the Ohio River country, the industrial landscapes of the Gulf are flat, requiring the use of a panoramic camera, and industry is separated from the workers' homes and communities. Thus, in this new work, industrial structures have become the focus and raison d'etre for Borowiec's artistic inquiry into the nature of land and life along the Gulf. All of these places of industry require the highest form of security. Borowiec gained permission from corporations to enter onto the grounds of many of their sites. The result is a perspective on how Gulf lands were reshaped, especially after World War II, from a plantation economy into a complicated industrial complex in order to meet America's growing needs for the products of everyday life."--DJ.