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September 27, 2005
Same room as yesterday's, from the Employee Welfare Building at Bethlehem Steel. For me, this one captures the discarded feeling of the place. When personal effects are left behind it's much easier to find something to latch on to.
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This shows the Marie Celeste effect even more starkly
I really like the lighting in this shot and yesterday's. It is interesting that people just left such important items. The sharpness of this is excellent!
I'm staring at the white tube in the lower left, thinking - is that PAINT? There does seem to be an awful lot of boots left behind - maybe the company owned them?
Just cant believe how things were just left , like an evacuation needed to be done quickly. amazing , nothing would be left to anyone in Australia.
How sad.
compositionwise, i'm not too fond of this one... i feel like it needs more boots and less stray colors - like the white crap in the corner and the blue zipper. But hey, that's just me.
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Ya, when I first viewed this pic this AM it moved me to tears. Its not that the boots were left behind because often company bought & owned equipment is considered assets & cannot be removed from the property for legal reasons upon plant closings. Its the finality that Kendall captures in his photo shoots. He dares to bare that rare glimpse of the vulenerable & ever increasingly dispensible, throw a way, everyday hard core worker.
If anybody has ever been through a plant closing after years of dedicated employment they will relate strongly with this pic.
I like this photo in color. There's something about the contrast that gets me to look a little more deeply than if it were in bw.
Yeasterday "his" helemet
Today "his" boots
A photogaraphic Striptease of sorts.....
Gotta wonder why these workers didn't wear these to and from home. Did the company supply the boots? Or maybe they were toxic?!
the picture has a sad and lonely feeling to it.
for some reason when I first saw this all I could think of was the movie Flashdance. I truly love it though.