Beauty in Decay. Urbex (Beauty in Decay, 1) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0955912148 ISBN 13: 9780955912146

Publisher: Carpet Bombing Culture, 2012

Synopsis

"Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints." This is the unspoken rule of urban explorers, who sometimes risk their safety, police records, and even their lives to explore abandoned buildings, sewers and storm drains, transit tunnels, utility tunnels, high-security areas of inhabited buildings, and even catacombs such as those in Paris, Rome, Odessa and Naples. Although these urban explorers usually work solo or in small teams, they collectively put forth a ground cry against a modern culture that embraces the new, polished, uniform, and mundane. Urban explorers find the beauty layers of graffiti by years worth of writers, multi-hued peeling paint, antique objects, someone s initials left in the dust on a broken stained glass window and physical manifestations of memory that abandoned, impermanent urban spaces can hold. Beauty in Decay features the best in full-color, panoramic photographs from urban exploration or Urbex around the world. Overgrown industrial complexes, disused lunatic asylums, abandoned palaces and forgotten monasteries are showcased, and paired with clear-sighted, poetic text.

About this title

About the Author:

RomanyWG is a film editor and photographer who's first book Beauty in Decay broke new ground in the genre of Urban Exploration

Review:

A visually stunning book, full of rich inspiring images providing a really interesting insight into the ethos of urban exlorers. Most photographers probably started out by taking photos of derelict buildings and abandoned places

About this edition

• Publisher: Carpet Bombing Culture
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0955912148
• ISBN 13: 9780955912146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 192