The Honorable Parts
I had an opportunity to do some industrial work while putting myself through university. I do wish there were more opportunities to do industrial work on a part time, temporary, or casual basis. There is something particularly rewarding about working with your hands as a part of a team and in combination with a large machine to produce something tangible.
Any advice or resources on how to scale a manufacturing business other than outsource it all to China? I have some ideas of things I can make myself, but then when it comes to shipping them off to a factory in Shenzen, I lose interest.
It has become so easy to live life abstracted from all the manufacturing, farming, and logistics that makes it possible. As technology increases leverage, and allows things to become more complex, it feels like we're constantly getting farther away from understanding how the world works.
Photography like this is necessary to remind us of everything we take for granted. I talked to Chris Payne once. He's a genius. To me he is today's Margaret Bourke-White. It takes more than a good eye to get those photographs. There are so many talents coming together.
Also worth looking at: Bernd and Hilla Becher https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-photographer-c...
What a lovely community, right up my alley. Thank you!
Is it just me or does anyone else read the headline as damning, with faint praise, the state of labor in America? Think Amazon warehouse workers, Wal*Mart retail employees, UPS delivery drivers, and the entire gig economy.
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A couple of other industrial photographers worth looking at:
Maurice Broomfield: https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/maurice-broomfield-industr...
Wolfgang Sievers: https://www.google.com/search?q=WOLFGANG+SIEVERS&sourceid=ch...
And the one mentioned in the article (Alfred Palmer)
https://www.sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/women-work-world-war-i...