Twenty years ago when I was walking on the streets of Granada, Spain, I caught sight of a nice, peculiar cast iron cover of a water tap hole in front of my foot. On this cover was a beautiful pomegranate (a Mediterranean fruit), and I fell in love with this type of art immediately. At that time I was thinking what a nice idea would be to take a photo of it and other objects like it and then collect pictures of these objects from all over the World. But, as usual, I let it slide and before I knew it I had lost 18 years. As a result, I have been taking photos and collecting them for only for two years. Of course I have been looking for pictures of objects of this type on the Web and I found some very exiting websites dealing with this topic. I hope there are still other people who enthusiastically collect these pictures. I would like to show to the other people how interesting and nice these works of iron are from an artistic point of view. They represent the industrial design culture and, at the same time, the heritage of the inhabitants of the cities in which they are to be found. If somebody is interested in this subject and would like to look at more pictures, or else deals with similar “crazy” things, please contact me at:  acsistvan@hotmail.com
 
 

My name is Istvan Acs, I was born at 1950 in Budapest, Hungary. I grew up in a quite large family. After finishing my studies at the University of Agricultural Sciences, I dealt with animal breeding and genetic subjects. Now I work in the administrative field in my profession.

I always like making photos of different places and things around me. Of course I am not a professional photographer. I have only a very simple camera suited only to an amateur. I hope, though, in this way I can bring to notice other kinds of sights of things around us which are not usually perceived.

My Photo: click to
 
 

http://projects.artinfo.ru/Sewers/exhib-e.htm
Here you will find an international picture collection from Russia.

http://www.danheller.com/manholes.htm
Here you will find photographs by Dan Heller, an American professional photographer, who has a good collection of pictures dealing with manholes covers.
 
 

Manhole Covers
01.jpg, 02.jpg, 03.jpg, 04.jpg, csat7.jpg, fedlap6, negyzet5

Gas Taps
14.jpg, 15.jpg, 16.jpg, gaz4, gaz8

Water Taps
vizcsap1, vizcsap2, vizcsap6, vizcsap8, vizcsap9, vizcsap13

Phones
posta1, posta2, posta3, posta4, posta10

Sewers
17.jpg, 18.jpg, 19.jpg, 20.jpg, 21.jpg, kanalis3, kanalis8

Tree Protecting Grates
22.jpg, 23.jpg, 24.jpg, 25.jpg, 26.jpg, 27.jpg, 28.jpg, favedo3, favedo8

Gate Protecting Poles
05.jpg, 06.jpg, 07.jpg, 08.jpg, 09.jpg, 10.jpg, 11.jpg, 12.jpg, kerekveto5, kerekveto7
 
 

Austria:
ausztria10, ausztria4, ausztria6, ausztria7

Great Britain:
ang2

Czech Republic:
cseh2, cseh5, cseh7, cseh10, cseh12, cseh13, cseh14, cseh20, cseh21

Denmark:
dan1, dan3, dan5, dan6, dan8, dan9, dan10, dan12, dan14, dan15, dan16, dan17, dan18, dan19, dan22, dan23, dan24

France:
francia1

Poland:
lengyel 10, lengyel 16

Germany:
nem1, nem5, nemet1, nemet2, nemet3, nemet4, nemet5, nemet8, nemet9, nemet10, nemet12, nemet14, nemet18, nemet21, nemet22, nemet23, nemet26, nemet27

Italy:
olasz1, olasz5, olasz7, olasz8, olasz10, olasz16, olasz18, olasz19, olasz20, olasz21, olasz24, olasz30, olasz31, olasz32, olasz33, olasz34, olasz37

Portugal:
port1, port4, port5, port7, port10, port11, port12, port13, port16, port19, port20, port21, port22, port23, port24, port26, port29

Romania:
rom1, rom2, rom3, rom4, rom5, rom6, rom7, rom8, rom9

Russia:

St. Petrograd - rus-spb01, rus-spb02, rus-spb03, rus-spb04, rus-spb05, rus-spb06, rus-spb07, rus-spb08, rus-spb09, rus-spb10, rus-spb11, rus-spb12, rus-spb13, rus-spb14, rus-spb15, rus-spb16, rus-spb17, rus-spb18, rus-spb19, rus-spb20, rus-spb21, rus-spb22, rus-spb23, rus-spb24

Spain:
spa10, spa12, spa15, spa21

Switzerland:
svajc1, svajc2, svajc5, svajc7, svajc8, svajc10, svajc13, svajc16, svajc18, svajc19, svajc20, svajc21, svajc22, svajc25, svajc26, svajc28, svajc30, svajc31, svajc32, svajc33

Sweden:
sved1

Slovakia:
szlov1, szlov5, szlov7, szlov8, szlov12, szlov13, szlov14, szlov15, szlov16, szlov18, szlov19, szlov19, szlov20
 
 

USA:

Florida - usaflo1, usaflo1, usaflo2, usaflo3, usaflo4, usaflo5, usaflo6, usaflo7, usaflo8, usaflo9, usaflo10, usaflo11, usaflo12, usaflo13, usaflo14, usaflo15, usaflo16, usaflo17, usaflo18, usaflo19, usaflo20, usaflo21, usaflo22, usaflo23

Michigan - usamich2, usamich3, usamich4, usamich5, usamich6, usamich7, usamich8

Missouri (St. Louis) - usastlouis1, usastlouis2, usastlouis3, usastlouis4, usastlouis5, usastlouis6, usastlouis7, usastlouis8, usastlouis9, usastlouis10

Miscellaneous - usany1, usany2, usany3, usany4, usany5

Argentina:
arg1

Dominican Republic:
dom1, dom2, dom3, dom5, dom6, dom7, dom8
 
 

afr1 afr2 afr3 afr4 afr5 afr6 afr7 afr8 afr9 afr10 afr11 afr12 afr13

China:
kina1, kina2

Japan:
japan1, japan2, japan12
 
 

13.jpg vegyes9.jpg