Steel Town Edition:Signed She is best known for

She is best known for her photographic studies of a real and imagined town in southern Germany

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The Last Cosmology was originally published in parts in the 1980s

Street photography is perhaps the defining genre of photographic art

Steel Town Edition:Signed She is best known forIn 1977, Stephen Shore travelled across New York state, Pennsylvania, and eastern Ohio an area in the midst of industrial decline that would eventually be known as the Rust Belt. Shore met steelworkers who had been thrown out of work by plant closures and photographed their suddenly fragile world: deserted factories, lonely bars, dwindling high streets, and lovingly decorated homes. Across these images, a prosperous middle America is seen teetering on