City Rain

Abstract

Martin J. Desht's photo-documentary exhibit Faces from an American Dream recorded the social impacts of America's transition from the industrial manufacturing economy to the service and information economy, particularly in Pennsylvania. City Rain was a minor project incidental to the work on American deindustrialization. Faces from an American Dream has been touring for more than twenty years. After early exhibits in Pennsylvania and a review in Pennsylvania History, the work traveled to Harvard University, Dartmouth College, New York University's Stern School of Business, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Senate, and many other colleges and universities, most recently Michigan State University's College of Law. It is currently scheduled for venues in New Mexico.