KA LeDuc
KA LeDuc
An American Photographer
 

BETHLEHEM STEEL

THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD

STEEL MILLS

The mills
That grind and grind,
That grind out new steel
And grind away the lives
Of men,—
In the sunset
Their stacks
Are great black silhouettes
Againset the sky.
In the dawn
They belch red fire.
The mills,—
Grinding out new steel,
Old men
— Langston Hughes, 1925

 

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ARTIST STATEMENT

Bethlehem Steel was a hive of the Industrial Age. To live under bellowing stacks, to work in fiery furnaces, to make molten steel from coal. To build the melting pot that made America a manufacturing power. A cultural legend, an icon of American life, a true hero archetype. In this series I use Architectural shapes and textures of eroding steel as a metaphoric narrative to lead the viewer beyond withering steel, peeling paint, and rust. To see past the pictorial dichotomy of the element’s ugliness, to engage viscerally, to feel its inherent beauty, to have a faithful dialogue within oneself


 


If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.
— Wendell Berry

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Details

This collection includes 24 x 36 inch archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle Baryta paper, available in a Limited Edition each priced at $1,250.00. All prints are signed, numbered, and dated by the artist on print verso. Additionally, custom-sized one-off prints, both larger and smaller, are available, as well as an Artist Four Print Edition. Please inquire for more details..

Prints are released in an edition of 5, plus one A/P master print held by the artist. (AP + Ed. 1/5 )