The beauty of the industrial revolution
Via a mailing list I discovered a stunning series of photograhs of machinery taken at the Hagley Museum, set among beautiful gardens at the original gunpowder mill built by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont in 1803 in Delaware in the US. The museum includes several restored buildings, and offers a romantic, languorous view on America’s industrial past.
Selecting just one example of the photography was hard, because the composition, textures, colours and lighting in all shots are just beautiful — do view the rest of the set — but I particularly like this press:
The photographer, Harold Ross, specialises in techniques such as light painting, used in the Hagley series, and has a great porfolio at the Ross Studios website.
Who said machines are ugly? Who said Charles Dickens wrote all you need to know about the industrial revolution?
