STEEL TOWN

In 1977, Stephen Shore travelled across New York state, Pennsylvania, and eastern Ohio an area in the midst of industrial decline that would eventually be known as the Rust Belt. Shore met steelworkers who had been thrown out of work by plant closures and photog raphed their suddenly fragile world: deserted factories, lonely bars, dwindling high streets, and lovingly decorated homes. Across t hese images, a prosperous middle America is seen teetering on the precipice of disastrous decline.