Portraits in Steel Photographs by Milton Rogovin Interviews by Michael Frisch

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Portraits in Steel Photographs by Milton Rogovin Interviews by Michael Frisch
 
Portraits in Steel Photographs by Milton Rogovin Interviews by Michael Frisch
Soft Cover
Copyright 1993
318 pages
PORTRAITS IN STEEL
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MILTON ROGOVIN
INTERVIEWS BY MICHAEL FRISCH
This powerful book documents-in images and words-the unsettling experience of a dozen men and women workers who lost their jobs in the steel mills in Buffalo, New York, and then had to fashion new lives for themselves. It is the fruit of a collaboration between the celebrated documentary photographer Milton Rogovin and Michael Frisch, who is a leading figure in American oral history.
In the late 1970s, Rogovin shot a series of highly esteemed portraits of Buffalo steelworkers, pairing photographs of each worker taken on the job with photographs posed by the worker at home. In the mid-1980s, after the Buffalo steel industry had collapsed, he took follow-up portraits of these workers, who were now "deindustrialized." This time he was joined by Frisch, who recorded interviews with them, and in some cases, with their spouses and families. The workers describe what it was like to work in the steel mills, and they speak about the changes in their lives, some with anger and despair, others with acceptance and hope.
Full of stunning moments and shrewd perceptions, these revealing narratives bear witness to major, often wrenching changes in the American economy and in American society over the last twenty years. The photographs offer a fascinating study in contrasts, and the life stories these people tell are both stark and poignant. Readers encounter in Portraits in Steel an unforgettable group of distinct individuals-men and women who present, directly and forthrightly, the truth of their work, their lives, and their experiences.
MILTON ROGOVIN is an award-winning documentary photographer whose work has been widely published, exhibited in major museums and galleries throughout the world, and critically acclaimed.
MICHAEL FRISCH is Professor of History and American Studies at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and the editor of the Oral History Review.
Cornell Paperbacks
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ithaca and London

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword by Robert Doherty xiii
Introduction r
Map 16
Photo Gallery 23
PART ONE
The Chip Shop 79
z Benjamin Boofer 81
2 Dick Hughes ror
3 Ralph and Rose Wils 115
4 Kenneth and Mary Grace Sion 129
5 Mark and Lynn Cieslica 149
PART TWO
Women in Big Steel 179
6 Doris McKinney r81
7 Effie Edwards 197
8 Mary Daniels 207
PART THREE
Foundrymen 225
9 James Mathis 227
10 William Douglass, Jr. 241
ii Frank Andrzjewski, Jr. 269
PART FOUR
The Cinder Snapper 293
12 Joseph Kemp 295
Afterword 317

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