Description
Book SynopsisA collection of photographs and essays focusing on postindustrial landscapes and abandoned buildings in Pennsylvania.
Trade Review“[Shaun] O’Boyle documents these subtle ruins that surround us every day. He beautifully captures the hidden beauty of abandoned sites such as the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Bethlehem Steel, and the Bannerman Island Arsenal in New York.”
—Megan Roth Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Those old enough to have grown up in the shadows of factories have seen those same factories become either ruins or condos. O’Boyle’s black-and-white photos capture both the grittiness and the poignancy of such disparate—yet oddly similar—sites as the Eastern State Penitentiary, the Bethlehem Steel Works, and the bizarrely grand arsenal on Bannerman’s Island near Cold Spring, NY.”
—Frank Wilson Philadelphia Inquirer
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Survivals
Geoff Manaugh
Institutions
Curt Miner
Steel
Kenneth Warren
Coal
Kenneth C. Wolenksy
Arsenal
Thomas Lewis
Interview with the Photographer
