Stained Ground

Taewon Jang
9783775737845 / 3775737847
Stained Ground

Stained Ground

Taewon Jang
9783775737845 / 3775737847
Publisher Hatje Cantz 2014
Edition Hardcover , 168 pages
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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.

Contributions by Suejin SHIN, graphic design by Andreas Platzgummer, ed. Suejin SHIN, Markus Hartmann

Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Size: 310 x 255 mm
168 pages, 77 illustrations

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Book title Stained Ground
Photographer Taewon Jang
ISBN 10 3775737847 / 3-7757-3784-7       
ISBN 13 9783775737845 / 978-3-7757-3784-5
Publisher Hatje Cantz
Publish date Feb 2015
Publish year 2014
Book format Hardcover
Language English
Pages 168 pages
Number of photographs 77 illustrations
Dimensions 31,0 x 25,5 cm / 12 x 9.75 inches
Book designer Andreas Platzgummer

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