He continued his studies on the Standard Oil project, and contributed two photo-essays to the Wharton Annual in 1984 (concerning the Standard Oil photographs) and 1985 (on a later Stryker-led project for Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation).
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Plattner conducted oral history interviews with the project's key photographers—Clyde Hare, Harold Corsini, Esther Bubley, Russell Lee, James P. Blair, Richard Saunders, Elliott Erwitt, Sol Libsohn, and Arnold S. Eagle—and co-authored and edited Witness to the Fifties, published in 1999 with the help of a grant from the Howard Heinz Endowment.
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In 1983 Plattner went on to study Stryker's Pittsburgh Photographic Library project, which followed the Standard Oil project from 1950-1953.
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Steven W. Fisher (1946–2010), American attorney who served on the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Steven W. Mosher, social scientist, demographer, China scholar, and author
Steven W. Taylor (born 1949), American politician, Oklahoma Supreme Court justice
According to Mosher's book, Journey to the Forbidden China, he had a travel permit signed by the proper authority (Section Chief Liu of the Canton Public Security Office) to go into the "forbidden area" of Kweichow (Guizhou) because it was en route to his destination of Szechwan (Sichuan).
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At the time he was married to a woman from Guangdong province, and for several months between 1979 and 1980 lived in rural Guangdong.
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Mosher was born in 1949, to working class parents in Scotia, California, and spent his early years in Fresno, California.