Matthew Blum

Galleries

The Blum Museum of Art & Machinery

A continually expanding institution of images, objects, circuits, and questionable ideas.

Guided tour The Lehigh Valley Tour

Stop 3 of 9 · Lehigh Valley Wing

Bethlehem Steel Lithophane

Lithophane. Exhibited in Armature for Aperture (2024).

Room 06

Lehigh Valley Wing

Allentown, Bethlehem, Martin Tower and the rest of the Valley.

  1. Bethlehem Steel. Blue-toned print of the Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces rising behind a long, low shed and overgrown grass.
  2. Bethlehem Steel Blower House, 2020. Palladium, cyanotype and pigment. 8x10. Print with brushed dark edges of a long industrial hall lined with large engines and flywheels, tinted pink and gray.
  3. Martin Tower. Black-and-white view looking straight up a tall office tower, its bands of windows converging toward a patch of sky.
  4. Bethlehem Steel Lithophane. Lithophane. A lithophane made of square tiles that together show the Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces, lit from behind.
  5. Albertus L. Meyers Bridge. Soft-colored photograph of a long concrete arch bridge over a wooded valley, with factory buildings and hills beyond.