Industrial Interiors
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Behind the machinery, the scaffolding, and the steam lies a world of raw, monumental beauty — and Ferit Kuyas captures it with breathtaking precision in Industrial Interiors. This landmark photography collection chronicles the hidden grandeur of industrial spaces, presenting vast factory floors, towering silos, and labyrinthine workshops as sublime architectural landscapes, rendered in the rich tonal contrasts of large-format black-and-white photography. Kuyas's lens transforms what is ordinarily dismissed as purely functional into something profoundly aesthetic, revealing the geometric complexity and human scale embedded within these colossal working environments. Accompanying texts by Hans-Peter Bahnsen, Benedikt Loderer, and Ferit Kuyas himself provide critical and philosophical context, situating this work within a broader tradition of industrial photography that stretches from the Becher school to contemporary documentary practice. Kuyas's mastery lies in his ability to impose a meditative stillness upon spaces defined by noise and motion, inviting the viewer to reconsider the very definition of interior space. A work of rare visual intelligence and formal rigour, Industrial Interiors challenges the boundary between documentary record and fine art — leaving the reader to wonder where industry ends and architecture truly begins.
Author: Ferit Kuyas
Format: Hardback
Published: 1999, Edition Stemmle
Genre: Photography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Behind the machinery, the scaffolding, and the steam lies a world of raw, monumental beauty — and Ferit Kuyas captures it with breathtaking precision in Industrial Interiors. This landmark photography collection chronicles the hidden grandeur of industrial spaces, presenting vast factory floors, towering silos, and labyrinthine workshops as sublime architectural landscapes, rendered in the rich tonal contrasts of large-format black-and-white photography. Kuyas's lens transforms what is ordinarily dismissed as purely functional into something profoundly aesthetic, revealing the geometric complexity and human scale embedded within these colossal working environments. Accompanying texts by Hans-Peter Bahnsen, Benedikt Loderer, and Ferit Kuyas himself provide critical and philosophical context, situating this work within a broader tradition of industrial photography that stretches from the Becher school to contemporary documentary practice. Kuyas's mastery lies in his ability to impose a meditative stillness upon spaces defined by noise and motion, inviting the viewer to reconsider the very definition of interior space. A work of rare visual intelligence and formal rigour, Industrial Interiors challenges the boundary between documentary record and fine art — leaving the reader to wonder where industry ends and architecture truly begins.