Keith Clouse 196 pages hardcover
Steel City Rails is a landmark photography book documenting
the steel industry, railroads, and working life of the Pittsburgh and
Mon Valley region — a world that defined a city, shaped a nation, and
quietly disappeared within a generation.
Keith Clouse was there. From the early 1970s through the slow
collapse of the 1980s, he pressed the shutter when others would have put
the camera away — in bad weather, on unglamorous branch lines, inside
mills, at rusting furnaces. The result is an intimate, unsentimental
record of a place and a people in the last years of an industrial era.
The book features over 90 photographs across seven chapters, paired with original essays by Keith Clouse.
