Made of Steel

My Grandfather was known as “Two-Bit Johnny.” He found himself unemployed  and with only two-bits in his pocket. He purchased two old car batteries from a junk yard, made one good battery and then sold it back to the junk yard for a profit. From him I learned to love metal shops and the men who work there.

In a ten year period, I visited and photographed dozens of shops all over America and the men who work with steel. The images and stories are glimpses into their world.

This is my largest project to date, consisting of two monograph editions of eighty images and a five separate folios of 11-12 image each. The project is divided into "chapters" that represent four ares of the country I visited and one special chapter devoted to Joe Sasak and his story.

In Five Chapters

Click on the images below to jump to each chapter

Oregon

Washington

The Central States

North Dakota

Joe Sasak

Five folios of 11-12 prints each

Each of the five parts of Made of Steel are available as an independent folio.

Oregon

Washington

The Central States

North Dakota

Joe Sasak

These links open a separate web page for each folio. In these pages you can explore each of the folios in more detail as well as see the complete selection of prints.

Two PDF Monographs Editions

Available as an Adobe Reader Monograph and as an iPad Monograph from the downloads page.

These two monographs are the same content, just presented in different forms for different media readers.

The Made of Steel project includes eighty images — the 59 from the folios plus an additional 21 images not included in the folios. The full project was reworked in 2007 for an exhibition of the entire body of work. These monographs reproduce that exhibit.

The original PDF monograph was published in 2007.

Individual Prints

Made of Steel
Complete 5 Folio Set

Set of all 5 folios $395*

These fifty-nine images are offered as a pigment-on-paper printed folio, signed by the photographer and numbered, with an embossed cover. Using archival pigments and paper, each image has been printed by the photographer and produced to archival, museum standards.