{"id":5584,"date":"2013-12-15T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T21:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2013-12-15T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T21:33:02","slug":"photographer-finds-beauty-in-decay-loneliness-of-abandoned-breweries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5584","title":{"rendered":"Photographer finds beauty in decay, loneliness of abandoned breweries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/milwaukee\/photographer-finds-beauty-in-decay-loneliness-of-abandoned-breweries-b99163310z1-235882631.html\">Jim Stingl:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You just can&#8217;t keep Paul Bialas and his cameras out of abandoned and crumbling brewery buildings.<\/p>\n<p>A year after his photo book about Pabst came out, he&#8217;s back with another one featuring Schlitz, known for \u2014 say it with me \u2014 &#8220;the beer that made Milwaukee famous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like a vulture circling its lunch on the highway below, Bialas has an insatiable fascination with the history of these once-thriving Milwaukee giants and the carcasses left behind when the workers disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love it. Going in there gets me fired up, and few things do that. I wonder if I have just peaked and now I won&#8217;t have that feeling again. These two buildings \u2014 Pabst and Schlitz abandoned buildings \u2014 how do you top that?&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The self-published &#8220;Schlitz Brewing Art&#8221; is available on Amazon; Bialas&#8217; website, LakeCountryPhoto.com; and at local bookstores, including Best Place gift shop at the old Pabst site, Barnes &#038; Noble, Books &#038; Company and Boswell Book Company.<\/p>\n<p>Just to be clear, Bialas had permission to photograph both brewery sites. It was easier at Schlitz, he said, because light poured in through the skylight atop the seven-story building that housed two brewhouses, two labs and a malt house.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Stingl: You just can&#8217;t keep Paul Bialas and his cameras out of abandoned and crumbling brewery buildings. A year after his photo book about Pabst came out, he&#8217;s back with another one featuring Schlitz, known for \u2014 say it with me \u2014 &#8220;the beer that made Milwaukee famous.&#8221; Like a vulture circling its lunch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5585,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}