Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Henry Cleage and the press - wordless wednesday

Henry Cleage with the press about 1965

This works for this weeks Sepia Saturday too - Man and Machine.  For other Sepia Saturday posts click here.

21 comments:

james E. said...

i really like this picture

gem!

(Queenmothermamaw) Peggy said...

Gosh I hope he didn't get pressed in there. Great picture.
QMM

Christine H. said...

Great photo. It doesn't look quite as grueling as Alan's photo, but it looks intense and a little claustrophobic.

Kristin said...

he didn't have to stay in there and the rollers weren't in there. it was a bit of space between rollers where the web of paper passed over. never asked what he was doing though. now i wish i had.

Postcardy said...

I like the photo, but he looks like he didn't like to be photographed.

Marilyn said...

What a machine, and it looks like he didn't know he was surprised to be photographed.

Jinksy said...

He looks as though he's a 'man sandwich' between those two bits of machinery! :)

Kristin said...

Maybe he looks like that because of whatever he found was wrong with the press. They all had cameras and were forever taking photos of each other at the plant and out. Henry and his brother Hugh were the co-owners, printers, everything at Cleage Printers, which was located in back of their brother Louis' Cleage Clinic where he practiced medicine.

Karen S. said...

Gee I wonder if Lewis Hine took this photo? It sure represents just the kind of photo, people and machines that he would take! Do you know who took the photo? Very cool indeed!

Betsy said...

Perfect for the theme! He looks like he knows what he's doing!

Alan Burnett said...

An almost perfect match for the featured archive photo.

Kristin said...

I'm positive lewis hine did not take this photo. they were always taking pictures. i'm pretty sure my uncle hugh took it. or one of the other people that hung around the plant taking photos.

barbara and nancy said...

That's weird. I didn't know they had mammograms for men!
Nancy
Ladies of the grove

Jo said...

Very reminiscent of Alan's chosen photo - he looks like he was involved in some serious maintenance when someone sneaked up with a camera though :-) Jo

Leah said...

Wow. That is a vivid photo--his intensity, and the machines. An amazing picture.

Anna said...

That's a great shot, worth 1000 words as they say. It does look like a precarious position, but that's probably just my claustrophobia.

Tattered and Lost said...

This photo makes me think of those scenes in movies where a person is stuck in a room with the walls moving in, about to crush them. Wonderfully balanced shot of man with technology.

Bob Scotney said...

He's been caught in the act. You couldn't pose a picture like this.

Howard said...

Great photo! definitely unposed. I wonder what the machine did?

Kristin said...

Howard, it's a printing press. It printed mostly those add papers for small grocery stores. the paper web went over the space he's sitting in from one cylinder to the other where they got inked and printed.

TICKLEBEAR said...

WOW!!
is there a topic you can't cover with your large collection of photographs? great pic!!
:)~
HUGZ