Gingko Press and Carpet Bombing Culture present Beauty in decay / [compiled by RomanyWG ; words, Patrick Potter].

1st ed.

Berkeley, CA : Gingko Press, [2010]

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints." This is the unspoken rule of urban explorers, who sometimes risk their safety, police records, and even their lives to explore abandoned buildings, sewers and storm drains, transit tunnels, utility tunnels, high-security areas of inhabited buildings, and even catacombs such as those in Paris, Rome, Odessa and Naples. Although these urban explorers usually work solo or in small teams, they collectively put forth a ground cry against a modern culture that embraces the new, polished, uniform, and mundane. Urban explorers find the beauty in layers of graffiti by years worth of writers, multi-hued peeling paint, antique objects, someone's initials left in the dust on a broken stained glass window and physical manifestations of memory that abandoned, impermanent urban spaces can hold. Beauty in Decay features the best in full-color, panoramic photographs from urban exploration, or Urbex, around the world.

1584234202 (hardcover)
9781584234203 (hardcover)

Abandoned buildings Pictorial works.
Photography, Artistic 20th century.
Photography, Artistic 21st century.
Architectural photography.
Urban ecology (Sociology) Pictorial works.
Constructions abandonnées Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie artistique 20e siècle.
Photographie artistique 21e siècle.
Photographie d'architecture.
Écologie urbaine Ouvrages illustrés.
Abandoned buildings
Photography, Artistic
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Övergivna byggnader bildverk.
Arkitekturfotografi.
Fotokonst.

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Ouvrages illustrés.

RomanyWG.
Potter, Patrick.
Gingko Press.
Carpet Bombing Culture.

Beauty in decay
Beauty in decay, urban exploration

Location: Library main 273236
Call No.: BIB 206745
Status: Available