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Additional Info: In this new book, The Blast Furnace, Ian Macdonald explores, through his extensive archive of photographs, the landscape the Blast Furnace stands in and touches on the process of making iron. Essentially, however, the book is a testament to the photographers passion for creating images of people in their working environment. Macdonalds unparalleled access to the furnace offers a unique record of the industry. Extraordinary images from within the working blast furnace are interlaced with portraits of the men. A sense of hard work, pride and a nobility of spirit may be seen in each of the large-format plate camera studies of the workers. The book concludes with the current situation of the Blast Furnace - that it may be re-opened, once again making the finest iron in the world, supplying raw materials to the sustainable energy industry.