MADE IN AMERICA
Abrams, 2023
240 pages, 11¾ x 10¼"
For the past ten years, photographer Christopher Payne has embarked on a photographic journey to learn more about American manufacturing and the industries that built this country. He has gained access to a world that continues to thrive but is often hidden from view.
In MADE IN AMERICA, Payne shows us an astonishing range of how things are made, from yarn in a traditional New England textile mill to a rocket made with the world’s largest 3-D printer—and every sort of manufacturing in between. From the tip of a pencil to the sleek lines of a wind turbine, from a classical guitar to a nuclear submarine, diverse forms of manufacturing—some very small and others incredibly large—are revealed as examples of American ingenuity and also, often unexpectedly, as instances of great beauty.
Including a foreword by Kathy Ryan and an introduction by Simon Winchester, the book’s oversize format beautifully showcases Payne’s dynamic color photographs. MADE IN AMERICA is a celebration of the making of things, the transformation of raw materials into useful objects, and the human skill and mechanical precision brought to bear on these materials that give them form and purpose.
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