Photographic narrative tracing the decline of the Schrade knife factory and its impact on the Hudson Valley community
Interwoven stories highlighting the lives of workers displaced by automation and the rise of the prison industrial complex
Focus on masculinity, violence, and identity in the context of American manufacturing
Includes contributions from other photographers and art institutions for a multidisciplinary perspective
Summarized by Shop
Knives is an elegy for American manufacturing made over several years, using photography to trace the shifting relationships between masculinity, myth, and violence in a rural town whose economic base, eviscerated by globalisation, is now supported by the prison industrial complex.
The cutlery industry formed the economic backbone of Ne