书名：Masterworks of Industrial Photography 2019 / 2019年工业摄影杰作展
定价：610.0
ISBN：9788892820920
作者：Laura Guidetti
版次：1
出版时间：2021-01

内容提要：

书名：Masterworks of Industrial Photography 2019 / 2019年工业摄影杰作展

作者：Laura Guidetti

出版：Electa ，2021年

装帧：精装，324页

语种：英文，意大利文

尺寸：22.7*29.4 cm

 

 

本书收录了2019年由马斯特基金会举办的工业摄影展精选作品。作为始终致力于工业与劳动关系研究的思想工坊，基金会通过这些展览构建了一个独特且可能无法复制的学术平台，持续推动着该领域的深入研究。

 

首场展览呈现了托马斯·斯特鲁斯自2007年起在全球创新科技前沿基地拍摄的彩色摄影作品。这位国际知名艺术家通过25幅巨幅影像，揭开了尖端技术背后隐秘世界的神秘面纱。从太空实验室、核电站到手术室、钻井平台，每一帧画面都凝聚着精益求精的细节捕捉、抽离式的美学审视与冷静的探索精神。艺术家以机械设备作为观察当代社会变革的窗口，记录了那些或将在当下及未来某个时刻深刻改变人类生存轨迹的科技突破——包括超技术实验、新兴研发、精密测量与科学干预。这些作品既展现了工业体系的宏大规模与复杂运作，更揭示了其背后隐藏的权力结构与知识政治。

 

随后推出的《人类世》展览则通过爱德华·伯汀斯基、珍妮弗·贝奇瓦尔与尼古拉斯·德·彭西尔的震撼影像，构建了一个多媒介艺术项目。融合静态摄影、电影艺术、增强现实与科学研究，三位艺术家以极具视觉冲击力的方式记录了人类活动对地球造成的深刻改造，揭示了人为干预对自然进程的影响。这场展览为提升公众对这一重大议题的认知提供了重要契机。

 

两场展览虽创作手法各异、主题取向不同，却形成了奇妙的互补效应。它们共同彰显了当代摄影技术的非凡表现力——这种已臻化境的视觉语言不仅创造出发人深省的图像，更成为叩问时代、唤醒良知的重要思想载体。

 

This book features the industrial photography exhibitions held by the Fondazione Mast in 2019, a unique and perhaps inimitable stage in a path of study and reflection constantly pursued by MAST as it retains its position as a workshop of thought centred on the pairing that links industry to work.

 

The first exhibition presented a selection of colour photographs taken by Thomas Struth from 2007 on at industrial sites and research centres worldwide that are cutting edge in technological innovation and experimentation. Struth is one of the best-known artists on the international scene and his 25 large format pictures are of normally inaccessible places, offering a glimpse into a world hidden behind advanced technology. Space research labs, nuclear plants, operating theatres and drilling rigs are photographed with painstaking attention, detached curiosity and a strong sense of aesthetics. The artist focuses on machinery as a means of changing today’s society and illustrates a number of scientific and hyper-tech experiments, new developments, research, measurements and interventions that will directly or indirectly burst into our lives and change their course at some unknown moment in the present or future. These works enable us to grasp all the complexity, scale and potency of the processes but also to perceive the power, politics of knowledge and trade they conceal.

 

Next comes the Anthropocene exhibition, an art project exploring mankind’s indelible footprint left on Earth via the remarkable photographs of Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier. Bringing together photography, cinema, augmented reality and scientific research, the three artists gave rise to a multimedia exploration of great visual impact recording the changes imposed by human activity on the planet and demonstrates the effects on natural processes. Anthropocene offered a major opportunity to raise awareness on a topic that is ever more crucial.

 

The two exhibitions form a pairing that is justified by the diverse work methods and the complementary nature of the topics addressed. Underpinning both is the capacity of the photographic tool, now risen to highly sophisticated levels, to create images that become the focus of a contemporary thought that raises questions and rattles consciences.