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Katherine Westerhout, Eastern State Penitentiary - II
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Jan 16, 2010 – Feb 27, 2010
Wednesdays–Fridays (10am–6pm)
Saturdays (11am–5pm)
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As Rust Belt belt cities lock up their architectural treasures and throw away the key, photographer Katherine Westerhout steals glimpses inside industrial spaces and former pleasure palaces declared fit for demolition. Shot in natural daylight, her lush, large-format images have the quality of rare specimens trapped in amber. In Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary paint peels and prison bars rust. Dust inches deep blankets Buffalo's grain elevators. The Motor City's Vanity Ballroom no longer lives up to its flashy name, with a bandstand that once hosted Duke Ellington standing tattered and silent, a melancholy souvenir of better times.
