Arts :: Loading Rolls- By Anastasia Pantsios, The Cleveland Free Times
Photographer Roger Mastroianni Captures Labor And Industry
A completed work of art doesn't change. But sometimes the world changes around it, altering the way we read it and imbuing it with new meanings not intended by the artist - perhaps not even knowable by him. Roger Mastroianni's dozen magnificent oversized black-and-white photos taken at LTV Steel in 1993, on display at Brown's Market in Tremont under the title Labor and Industry, were originally shot for the company. Unsurprisingly, there's a celebratory quality to the work that's suggestive of a vintage Life Magazine cover story praising the sweat and zeal of the American worker or one of those corporate-sponsored displays at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.