Posts Tagged: Pittsburgh Pa.
Carrie Furnace – The Show is Coming Up!
This is another image I will have in the Light from the Furnace exhibit in Pittsburgh. Opening reception is this coming Friday, April 24, at Shaw Galleries on Liberty Avenue in the Pittsburgh theater district. I am one of five artists exhibiting. The show will be up until May 24, 2015.
Carrie Furnace
Once the mightiest machine on earth, this is about all that is left of Carnegie Steel’s Homestead Works. This mammoth steel making and processing plant covered hundreds of acres on both sides of the Monongahela River just upstream from Pittsburgh. All that remains now is a pair of blast furnaces and their supporting structures. This image does not show a blast furnace but does show some of the necessary support structures.
The following panorama from the Library of Congress taken in 1912 will give you some sense of the scope of the Homestead Works. The group of blast furnaces known as Carrie Furnace are just barely visible across the river on the far right in the gap in the smoke stacks.
Pittsburgh Stock Exchange – Historic Pittsburgh
Who knew? 1904.
This image will be a print in the coming exhibit of historic images of Pittsburgh. The images are from several sources, this one from the Library of Congress. The photographer is unknown but the LOC attribution is The Detroit Photographic Co. and the print is marked as copyright by the Detroit Publishing Company. The original was an 8 x 10 glass plate negative, dry plate. The files were created by photographing the glass plates with a large format view camera equipped with a scanning back. All prints are contemporary archival pigment prints on 100% cotton rag paper.
Arrangements for the receptions are being handled by Sasha Williams. I am curating, processing the files, and making the exhibition prints. Matting, framing, and the venue for the exhibit is Shaw Galleries http://www.shawgalleries.com 805 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh. The show will be up from Tuesday, April 1, through Friday, April 25, 2014. The opening reception is Friday, April 4, and the closing reception is Friday April 25 during the Pittsburgh Gallery Crawl. I hope to see you there!
Soldiers and Sailors Hall – Historic Pittsburgh
In my defense I must point out that I did not do whatever has happened to the sky in this image. It looks like some kind of faux cloud treatment. That is the way it is from the Library of Congress. Circa 1910-1920.
This image will be a print in the coming exhibit of historic images of Pittsburgh. The images are from several sources, this one from the Library of Congress. The photographer is unknown but the LOC attribution is The Detroit Collection and the print is marked as copyright by the Detroit Publishing Company. The original was an 8 x 10 glass plate negative, dry plate. The files were created by photographing the glass plates with a large format view camera equipped with a scanning back. All prints are contemporary archival pigment prints on 100% cotton rag paper.
Arrangements for the receptions are being handled by Sasha Williams. I am curating, processing the files, and making the exhibition prints. Matting, framing, and the venue for the exhibit is Shaw Galleries http://www.shawgalleries.com 805 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh. The show will be up from Tuesday, April 1, through Friday, April 25, 2014. The opening reception is Friday, April 4, and the closing reception is Friday April 25 during the Pittsburgh Gallery Crawl. I hope to see you there!
Another for the Bridge Lover – Historic Pittsburgh
The Sixth Street Bridge, circa 1900-1910. This view is from the south shore of the Mon, looking across to downtown. Does anyone know when they removed the elevated roadway on the downtown side of the river? I swear I can remember it as a child. Also, have a look at the ornate ironwork that constitutes the bridge entrance facade.
This image will be a print in the coming exhibit of historic images of Pittsburgh. The images are from several sources, this one from the Library of Congress. The photographer is unknown but the LOC attribution is The Detroit Collection and the print is marked as copyright by the Detroit Publishing Company. The original was an 8 x 10 glass plate negative, dry plate. The files were created by photographing the glass plates with a large format view camera equipped with a scanning back. All prints are contemporary archival pigment prints on 100% cotton rag paper.
Arrangements for the receptions are being handled by Sasha Williams. I am curating, processing the files, and making the exhibition prints. Matting, framing, and the venue for the exhibit is Shaw Galleries http://www.shawgalleries.com 805 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh. The show will be up from Tuesday, April 1, through Friday, April 25, 2014. The opening reception is Friday, April 4, and the closing reception is Friday April 25 during the Pittsburgh Gallery Crawl. I hope to see you there!
Wabash Station 1905
This image, Wabash Station 1905, will be a featured print in the coming exhibit of historic images of Pittsburgh. The images are from several sources, this one from the Library of Congress. The photographer is unknown but the LOC attribution is The Detriot Collection. The original was an 8 x 10 glass plate negative, dry plate. This particular image will print about 22 inches high. All prints will be archival pigment prints on 100% cotton rag paper.
I am curating, processing the files, and making the exhibition prints. Matting, framing, and the venue for the exhibit will be Shaw Galleries, 805 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh. Arrangements for the reception are being handled by Sasha Williams. The show will be up from Tuesday, April 1, through Friday, April 25, 2014. The opening reception is Friday, April 4, and the closing reception is Friday April 25 during the Pittsburgh Gallery Crawl. I hope to see you there!