Pirelli Work

Chris Killip

ISBN 10: 386930961X / ISBN 13: 9783869309613

Published by Steidl, 2015

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Neu -I wanted to show the manufacturing process as clearly as I could, and to do so in this factory meant it would have to be lit. Ironically, my stubbornness in trying to avoid lighting would now have its own unexpected rewards. Because of the desperate amount of time that I had spent there, I knew in a visual way the processes of the factory; the rhythms and cycles of the machines, the movement and steps that the operators had to take, the movement that the processes predetermined for them. I began again, re-photographing the factory using lights, sometimes three or four lights triggered by remote control devices. The main light, which was the one balanced to light the subject, was often held on a pole by my friend, away from the camera, mimicking the fashion techniques that I knew from my past. I now understood and knew what I wanted to do. The workplace had become, in a real sense for me, a theater and I embraced the look of these new photographs with their relation to fashion, fi lm noir, and even Soviet realism. For me this "look" seemed a more telling way to record and document this enforced ritual. Chris Killip 88 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pirelli Work
• Publisher: Steidl
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 386930961X
• ISBN 13: 9783869309613
• Binding: Gebunden
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 28.7W x 26.8H x 1.1D centimeters 28.7 centimeters width by 26.8 centimeters height by 1.1 centimeters depth
• Weight: 850 grams

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Synopsis

In Pirelli Work, taken at the famous tire manufacturer's plant, UK photographer Chris Killip (born 1946) documents the factory setting and the workers. One of the novelties of this work is in the lighting: the photographer mimicked fashion techniques, illuminating his subjects with three or four lights triggered by remote control, plus a light held on a pole away from the camera. "The workplace had become, in a real sense for me, a theater," he has said, "I embraced the look of these new photographs with their relation to fashion, film noir, and even Soviet Realism. For me this 'look' seemed a more telling way to record and document this enforced ritual."
This clothbound monograph is the second edition of Pirelli Work, which was first published in 2006.