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stillgelegt (signed - last copies)

by Christoph Lingg

Photographs: Christoph Lingg

Text: Susanne Schaber, Richard Swartz and Serhij Zhadan (german, english, japanese editions)

Publisher: selfpublished

164 pages

Pictures: 104 photographs

Year: 2008

Price: 85 €

Comments: each cover is unique, as it is made of multi-coated, rusty metal plates, bound by hand, carton slip case; 30,8 x 23,7cm; available in German, English and Japanese

SHUT DOWN - Industrial Ruins in the EastIn few other places are becoming, being and passing moredramatically expressed than in shut-down factories, minesand foundries.In a total of fourteen countries Christoph Lingg tracked downnumerous industrial ruins: buildings from the textile,chemical, oil and heavy industries; processing plants forsugar and fish; brickyards and breweries - witnesses of timespast that have been left to decay.In these photographs he has captured the melancholy of abygone era. The pictures reflect not only economic developmentsand the way people related to work and the environment, butalso the identity of entire countries and regions.Three authors have approached this subject in completely differentways, guiding the reader through the industrial culture of the east:Susanne Schaber, Richard Swartz and Serhij Zhadan.

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stillgelegt (signed - last copies)

by Christoph Lingg

Photographs: Christoph Lingg

Text: Susanne Schaber, Richard Swartz and Serhij Zhadan (german, english, japanese editions)

Publisher: selfpublished

164 pages

Pictures: 104 photographs

Year: 2008

Price: 85 €

Comments: each cover is unique, as it is made of multi-coated, rusty metal plates, bound by hand, carton slip case; 30,8 x 23,7cm; available in German, English and Japanese

SHUT DOWN - Industrial Ruins in the EastIn few other places are becoming, being and passing moredramatically expressed than in shut-down factories, minesand foundries.In a total of fourteen countries Christoph Lingg tracked downnumerous industrial ruins: buildings from the textile,chemical, oil and heavy industries; processing plants forsugar and fish; brickyards and breweries - witnesses of timespast that have been left to decay.In these photographs he has captured the melancholy of abygone era. The pictures reflect not only economic developmentsand the way people related to work and the environment, butalso the identity of entire countries and regions.Three authors have approached this subject in completely differentways, guiding the reader through the industrial culture of the east:Susanne Schaber, Richard Swartz and Serhij Zhadan.

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