Masterworks of Industrial Photography: Exhibitions 2013-2014

Hardcover | 22.6 x 29.6 cm | 704 pp

Electa | 2015 | 9788891806925

Text in English and Italian

This book features all work displayed in the first four MAST exhibitions, staged between 2013 and 2014. The exhibitions were entitled Industrial Worlds 2013; Industrial Worlds 2014; Human Capital in Industry and The Factory Photographs. The Factory Photographs presented 111 photographs, some from the foundation’s own collection, by film-maker David Lynch.

As well as an introduction by Isabella Seragnoli, the book comprises the essay Photography and Industry by the curator of the MAST collection, Urs Stahel, and two special contributions about an exhibition of David Lynch’s photographs by Petra Giloy-Hirtz and Gian Luca Farinelli.

The works reproduced in the book include many masterpieces including the series of rayograms from Man Ray’s Electricité, images by André Kértes, August Renger-Patzsch, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lewis Hine, Sebastião Salgado, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, Harry Gruyaert, Toshio Shibata, Simon Norfolk, Lee Friedlander, Peter Keetman, Timm Rautert and Walter Vogel.

Fondazione MAST is an international, cultural and philanthropic institution based on Technology, Art and Innovation. Founded in Bologna in 2013, the Foundation aims to promote projects that leverage identity and creativity in order to develop new ideas and create new connections.