Language
The MAST Foundation presents an exhibition of images from its collection of industrial photography. Sixty-seven authors from the 1920s up to the present time show, with more than one hundred works – some of which made up of dozens of snapshots – the disruptive power of the photographic language in its many meanings.
The exhibition is a celebration of images, a pictorial epic, a dance of visions from the world of industry which parade before our eyes, a visual abundance of insights into heavy manufacturing, machine industry, digitalisation, and throw-away society. The perspectives of sixty-seven photographers guide us through the realm of production and consumption, showing us the extraordinarily rich visual world of labour, factories and society.
The exhibition traces central spaces in the industrial-technological system, it touches upon social and political questions, but rather than simply identifying hard facts the images attempt to depict more extensive, deeper connections, to present us with complex dimensions, also implying an emotional involvement.
The iconographic universe of industry and labour, factory and society, explored in this exhibition, is permeated with the idea of the multifaceted: many levels, paths, different time lines, atmospheres intersecting or runnning parallel to each other – like the man on his donkey cart in front of an industrial facility in a photograph by Pepe Merisio or André Kertész’s juxtaposition of a small bell tower against the two towers of the World Trade Center, two images representing the symbol of the entire exhibition project.
Photographs of:
| BERENICE ABBOTT MAX ALPERT TAKASHI ARAI RICHARD AVEDON LEWIS BALTZ GABRIELE BASILICO BERND E HILLA BECHER MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE BILL BRANDT JOACHIM BROHM GORDON COSTER STÉPHANE COUTURIER THOMAS DEMAND SIMONE DEMANDT CÉSAR DOMELA PIETRO DONZELLI ARNO FISCHER | FLOTO + WARNER MASAHISA FUKASE GEISSLER / SANN LUIGI GHIRRI JIM GOLDBERG BRIAN GRIFFIN FERENC HAÁR HEINRICH HEIDERSBERGER LEWIS W. HINE RUDOLF HOLTAPPEL I.N.P. - INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTOS COLIN JONES PETER KEETMAN ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ TAKASHI KIJIMA HIROKO KOMATSU | GERMAINE KRULL DOROTHEA LANGE FRANZ LAZI CATHERINE LEUTENEGGER O. WINSTON LINK RÉMY MARKOWITSCH EDGAR MARTINS REINHARD MATZ PEPI MERISIO NINO MIGLIORI RICHARD MISRACH JAMES MUDD NASA PHOTOGRAPHS WALTER NIEDERMAYR KIYOSHI NIIYAMA FEDERICO PATELLANI MARION POST WOLLCOTT | TATA RONKHOLZ SEBASTIÃO SALGADO VICTOR SHAKHOVSKY CHARLES SHEELER GRAHAM SMITH W. EUGENE SMITH JULES SPINATSCH HENRIK SPOHLER ANTON STANKOWSKI EDWARD STEICHEN OTTO STEINERT THOMAS STRUTH JÁNOS SZÁSZ YUTAKA TAKANASHI SHOMEI TOMATSU JAKOB TUGGENER
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