#working men

Though a great many of Wilhelm von Gloeden’s amateur models were fishermen, we rarely see them photographed with boats; here is a fascinating glimpse of everyday life in the 1890s - a welcome reminder of the reality behind the idyllic scenes of artfully posed Arcadian bliss!

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“Walker, puddler in blast furnace cast house, steel mill”

1979

David Plowden, photographer

East Chicago, Indiana