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Stained Ground

Stained Ground

Hardback (07 Oct 2014)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Ominous, overwhelming, and harshly lit at night-Korean photographer Taewon Jang (1976 in Seoul) puts industrial plants at the center of his work. He documented abandoned steel factories, nuclear reactors, cooling towers, storage containers, or briskly working oil refineries to depict the traces of humans' effort to survive in modern era. Residential buildings seem tiny in comparison, and the overall scale has obviously shifted. Jang prefers to show us these industrial landscapes in the gray of the dawn, or the red of dusk, by moonlight, in fog or snow; sometimes he shifts a gnarled tree into the foreground, but despite-or perhaps precisely because of-these potentially romantic, idyllic topoi, the viewer senses an uncanny, apocalyptic mood. Large, apparently deserted industrial plants dominate the horizon, yet moving backhoes, cranes, and conveyor belts give the impression they might have a hazardous life of their own.

About the Publisher

Hatje Cantz

Hatje Cantz publishes art, photography, design, and architecture books with a focus on contemporary art.

Book information

ISBN: 9783775737845
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Imprint: Hatje Cantz
Pub date:
DEWEY: 779.97254092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 167
Weight: 1414g
Height: 255mm
Width: 310mm
Spine width: 18mm