Fine Print: Dance of the Flaming Coke. Pittsburgh, USA, 1955 All Prints This is the unromantic reality

This is the unromantic reality

all vie with each other and present different constructs

and here in Germany an African American soldier was ready to defend the United States

they relied on a mix of hunting and farming skills for their subsistence lifestyle

Fine Print: Dance of the Flaming Coke. Pittsburgh, USA, 1955 All Prints This is the unromantic realityAfter 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