September 22, 1994: Vol26n3: Choices: Steel - a powerful view in photo exhibit

Photographs of Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Lackawanna plant by
Patricia Layman Bazelon are on view through Oct. 22 at the Anderson
Gallery. Bazelon is chief photographer at the Brooklyn Museum in New
York and taught at the UB School of Architecture and Planning in 1987.
	Her large-format color photographs, taken between 1987 and
1991, powerfully depict the defunct and abandoned steel mills along
the Lake Erie shoreline, just south of Buffalo. Constructed at the
turn of the century, the Lackawanna plant was acquired by Bethlehem
Steel in 1922, and operated until 1983 when the primary steel-making
facilities were closed permanently.
	"The thousands of workers - men and women of uncommon courage
and skill - were long gone, but they had left their marks indelibly,"
Bazelon said. "The abandoned buildings evoke these workers in singular
and unexpected ways and resonate...with their energy."
	Solo exhibitions of Bazelon's work have been held at the
Burchfield-Penney Art Center; Ballenford Architectural Books, Toronto;
and the Buffalo Seminary, where she served as the Colby Lecturer in
Art. Work by Bazelon also have been included in group exhibitions at
the Whitney Museum of American Art; Equitable Center, New York City;
Berland Hall, New York City; International Museum of Photography,
George Eastman House, Rochester; and locally at Artspace, the
Albright-Knox Art Gallery and UB's Capen Gallery.
	The Anderson Gallery is located on Martha Jackson Place, off
Englewood one block south of Kenmore Ave. near the UB South Campus.
Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and
admission is free. For more information, call 834-2579.