His book, Industrial Eye: Photographs by Jet Lowe from the Historic American Engineering Record was published in 1986 by the Preservation Press.

In 1970 Lowe graduated from Emory University with a degree in art history, and started working for the Georgia Historical Commission, doing HABS documentation.

[1] Lowe uses large format images to record significant and often threatened American industrial sites for the National Park Service's HAER program.

These images along with an extensive architectural history and measured drawings constitutes a permanent record of the industrial sites he documents.

[2] Lowe's work is a major part of the permanent collections of The Library of Congress HABS/HAER program, and has been the subject of exhibitions at the CEPA Gallery,[[3] the Burchfield Penney Art Center,[4] and a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition, Covered Bridges: Spanning the American Landscape.