“One cannot walk through an assembly factory
and not feel that one is in Hell.” - W.H. Auden
Fábrica, a new book and film by photographer Daniel Blaufuks,
is a collection of images composed into an expanded scenery of memory, a
walk through the abandoned spaces of one of the largest factories in
Europe in an once flourishing industrial region, that never recovered
from the loss of the textile market to the Chinese exports.
Blaufuks worked the book and the film (which comes with this
edition) as a documental piece, collecting different kinds of memories,
crossing old photographs, manuscripts and objects with images of the
present state of the building interiors and surroundings.
The result is a reflection not only on the idea of a 'factory' in
itself, most generic and abstract, but also about forgetting and
abandonment, thus creating a significant memento about labor and the
disappearance of the working class in Europe in the last century, which
is one of the reasons for the present crisis in the region.
172 pages / color, b&w
20.5 x 25.5 cm / Includes DVD with film 'Fábrica' by Daniel Blaufuks and booklet with text by Daniel Blaufuks and Eduardo Brito (in Portuguese and English).
Co-published with Guimarães 2012.
ISBN 978-989-97763-2-6
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Book reviews:
* Le Monde - Des livre et des photos (Fr). Read here
* Included in Best books of 2013 for Le Monde. See here
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