Cathedrals of Industry

Exploring the Factories and Infrastructure That Made America

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2024
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. (Verlag)
978-0-7892-1498-0 (ISBN)

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A stunning photographic tour of more than twenty sites—both abandoned and operational—that are emblematic of America’s industrial heritage. Subjects range from a Lower East Side matzo factory, to the grain elevators of Buffalo, to the Paterson Great Falls Hydroelectric Plant. Locations include New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

A stunning photographic tour of more than 20 sites — both abandoned and operational — that are emblematic of America’s industrial heritage.

American culture and politics are shot through with nostalgia for the country’s industrial past, a time when we actually made things — physical things, not patterns of bits and bytes. But what did this past actually look like? Photographer Michael L. Horowitz has travelled throughout the Northeast in search of its remnants, both heritage businesses that have survived to the present and the ruins of decommissioned factories and infrastructure. The spaces he takes us inside range from the intimate to the vast — from the last silk flower workshop in New York’s Garment District to Buffalo’s looming grain elevators and the Paterson Great Falls Hydroelectric Plant, in operation since 1914. Horowitz photographs these places with the eye not only of a photographer but of someone who has taken the time to understand their workings in detail — an understanding that is extended to the reader through James Holtje’s lively and carefully researched text. Cathedrals of Industry will appeal to readers with a variety of interests, including history, architecture, engineering, and urban exploration.

Michael L. Horowitz, a New York-based photographer, has dedicated himself to documenting cultural history in the face of rapid change; his photographs of New York City, Buffalo, and Italy have been widely exhibited. Horowitz is the owner of Digital Imaging Group LLC, a custom digital and fine art photo studio. James Holtje is an author, speechwriter, and academic. He teaches at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and has published six books on business and public affairs.

CONTENTS
Introduction
Raw Materials
1. Klotz Throwing Company, Lonaconing, MD
DEFUNCT
2. Deerskin Tannery, Upstate New York
OPERATIONAL
3. Pulp Mill, Naponach, New York
DEFUNCT
4. Grain Elevators and Mills, Buffalo
SOME MILLS STILL ACTIVE
5. Lackawanna Steel
DEFUNCT
6. Bethlehem Steel
DEFUNCT
Workshops and Factories
7. M&S Schmalberg Silk Flowers, Manhattan
OPERATIONAL
8. Faerman Cash Register Co., Manhattan
CLOSED
9. Brooklyn Seltzer Boys
OPERATIONAL
10. Streit’s Lower East Side matzo factory
MOVED UPSTATE
11. Joyva, Brooklyn
OPERATIONAL
12. QRS Music, Buffalo
OPERATIONAL
Infrastructure
13. Colonel Ward Pumping Station, Buffalo
OPERATIONAL (BUT NOT THE GIANT STEAM ENGINE)
14. Buffalo Central Terminal
DEFUNCT (BEING CONVERTED TO A “VENUE”)
15. Hoboken Terminal
OPERATIONAL
16. IRT Substation, Manhattan
OPERATIONAL (BUT REFITTED)
17. Paterson Great Falls Hydroelectric Plant
OPERATIONAL (BUT REFITTED)
18. C. R. Huntley Generating Station, Tonawanda, New York
DEFUNCT
19. Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane
DEFUNCT (NOW A HOTEL)
20. West Side Piers, Manhattan
DEFUNCT

Erscheinungsdatum	05.11.2024
Illustrationen	Michael L. Horowitz
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	228 x 304 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-7892-1498-9 / 0789214989
ISBN-13	978-0-7892-1498-0 / 9780789214980
Zustand	Neuware