Pittsburgh and Interiors

I've got some images from my trip to Pittsburgh in this installment.  Informed by many influences including Gene Smith's Pittsburgh Project, Charles Sheeler, Joel Meyerowitz, John Pfal,  Dusseldorf School, the New Topographics and many others, the images attempt to define my relationship with industrial culture.  My approach to these industrial landscapes and structures is affectionate, soft, and in obeyance to the formal qualities of these objects of utility.  Pittsburgh has been photographed many times by many of the greatest photographers.  What could I do with this subject that hasn't already been done?  I set out to create images which are tempered with history as evidenced by previous photographic projects as well as create a visual document of the state of Pittsburgh's industrial culture as it stands in the winter of 2009.  The Pittsburgh I discovered is quiet in comparison to the dynamic and charged "Smokey City" of  the first part of the 1900s.  Many mills have been replaced with open space or commerce centers.  But there is still activity.  Clairton Works and Edgar Thompson plants are producing, but still my approach is forced by access, I'd jump at any opportunity to image the blast furnaces and casters at Edgar Thompson!
I'll be working on new American bike and car shots during the next few weeks, I've got a print showing at "The Living Room" in Salt Lake City, another in a salon showing in SLC.  I'll be preparing prints for a Memorial Day show at The 511 Gallery in Lake Placid.  I've also been art directing and directing web videos for fitness equipmet, which I love doing.  My new book, "Industrial Culture" is moving along, seems like there's always something to add to it, but stay tuned, it will get finished, it will!  It WILL!!

   

Here's some interior shots I made for Michele Dunker Interiors.

 

And some shots for Isimplifit's fitness pose directory...

Thanks for visiting!  I'll up some more images soon, we've been busy...  Dunker Imaging is a full service imaging vendor, delivering images on time, on budget with no hassles.