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Symphony in Steel: Ironworkers & The Walt Disney Concert HallJanuary 31 - November 28, 2004. Curator and Exhibition Designer: Alan Z. Aiches
Preparator and Exhibition Designer: MaryJane Valade
Graphics Designer: Nancy van Meter. The Museum gratefully acknowledges the extraordinary cooperation of Gil Garcetti, the Ironworkers of America, the office of Frank O. Gehry & Associates, M. A. Mortenson Company, Paris Photo, Los Angeles, and others in the preparation of this exhibition.
The new Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles has opened to great acclaim. This exhibition of 100 black-and-white photographs taken by Gil Garcetti is drawn from two recently published books featuring images of the building: Iron: Erecting the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Frozen Music, a series of panoramic photographs taken after its completion. Both celebrate the remarkable achievements of the ironworkers who assembled the steel frame and the finish ironworkers who applied the stainless steel skin to the building.
In summer 2001, Garcetti drove past the Walt Disney Concert Hall construction site and was so taken by the acrobatics of the ironworkers that he returned the next day to capture what he saw. He recorded the dangerous work they performed, with the assistance of large construction cranes, as they choreographed and coaxed thousands of tons of s
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