Fine Print: Dance of the Flaming Coke. Pittsburgh, USA, 1955 Nature and Landscapes

Fine Print: Dance of the Flaming Coke. Pittsburgh, USA, 1955 Nature and LandscapesAfter W. Eugene Smith quit LIFE magazine in 1954, he shot more than 11,000 photographs of Pittsburgh from 1955 1957 for a book celebrating the citys bicentennial. Smith documented every corner of this vibrant industrial metropolis the most comprehensive visual chronicle ever made of an American city in motion. This striking image captures a steelworker tending production of coke, a fuel used to make molten iron. As Smith explained in the 1959 Popular

allowing him to capture striking images that were deeply human without being sentimental

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A text by curator and editor Clément Chéroux grapples with Guadeloupe’s colonial past in relation to the French Revolution

Emerging in 1930

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This iconic image appeared in Life Magazine that year — the very first of Riboud’s photographs to be published

which came to be known as Give Us the Ballot — an excerpt of which reads: “Give us the ballot and we will no longer have to worry the federal government about our basic rights…Give us the ballot and we will no longer plead to the federal government for passage of an anti-lynching law…Give us the ballot and we will fill our legislative halls with men of good will

Glinn spent several weeks photographing the politician as he toured the country for the Presidential campaign

after publishing his book Greek Portfolio

But the photographer did make extensive use of color

a recorder or some semblance of a filter between Warhol and his audience

Deciding to call new elections a year later