This is an older photograph taken in 1990 on film with a trusty Minolta XGM sporting an f1.2 50mm lens. The subject of the photograph is an old canning factory which was in the process of being torn down. Though factories dominated the Industrial Era, the growth in the service sector eventually began to dethrone them: the locus of work in general shifted to central-city office towers or to semi-rural campus-style establishments, and many factories stood deserted in local rust belts....

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