For over a decade, photographer Christopher Payne has been documenting people, processes and products at U.S. factories.
The subjects in his new book “Made in America” range from cutting-edge facilities that produce quantum computers and vaccines to the Bollman Hat Company factory in Adamstown, Pa., where workers use steam to shape felted hats in a process only slightly changed since the 19th century.
Some of Payne’s industrial photographs were made on assignment, but more often he simply emails a factory and asks to take pictures. What matters to him isn’t the prestige or perceived value of the finished product but the complex activities behind it.
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