STRONGLY LIMITED SIGNED EDITION by Stephen Shore ("Uncommon Places") - includes an extra image plate, signed by the artist and glued into the inside back cover. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE. New, mint, unread. Still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's foil. COLLECTOR'S COPY. Welcome to the LAST PHOTOBOOK AUCTION by 5Uhr30.com starting this year - with more than 100 great lots from my personal collection and from recent acquisitions. Like always we guarantee detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% transport protection, 100% transport insurance and of course combined shipping - worldwide. Mack Books, London. 2021. First edition, first printing. Embossed hardback with tipped-in image. 235 x 300 mm. 104 pages. Photos: Stephen Shore. With a text by Helen C. Epstein, author, translator and professor of human rights and public health. Text in English. Great photobook in perfect condition - signed by the artist. We THANK YOU SO MUCH to make our single-seller photobook auctions on Catawiki so successful. Ecki Heuser & team are wishing ALL THE BEST TO YOU AND YOURS for 2025. 'In 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 the precipice of disastrous decline. Hope and despair alike lurk restlessly behind the surfaces of shop fronts, domestic interiors, and the fraught expressions of those who confront Shore’s 4x5” view camera. Originally commissioned as an extended photographic report for Fortune Magazine in the vein of Walker Evans, Shore’s multifaceted investigation has only gained political salience in the intervening years. Shore’s subjects – including workers, union leaders, and family members – had voted for Jimmy Carter the year preceding his visit; now he found them disillusioned with the new president, fated to leave behind the Democratic party and become the ‘Reagan Democrats’. Through unfailingly engrossing images by one of the world’s acknowledged masters, Steel Town provides an immersive portrait of a time and place whose significance to our own is ever more urgent.' (from the publisher)