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Despite mind-numbing feats of linguistic gymnastics, Pittsburgh's reputation as a notoriously smoky corner of the modern world persists in antique photographs of smelter stacks and furnace plumes made indelible by their stubborn redundancy amidst palls of gray-black fallout. The photos, made during the Great Depression under the aegis of the Farmer's Security Administration by such masters of photography as Jack Delano, John Vachon, John Collier and Arthur Rothstein, have risen to stations of reverence among the silver halide cognoscenti. To make matters worse, James Parton's description of the city as "hell with the lid off" double-burned the brand with a metaphor so wickedly enduring as to stubbornly refute Pittsburgh's miraculous reversal of a once-blighted skyline. VIEW ARTICLE AT PULP

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