Beauty in Decay (Hardback)
Short Description for Beauty in Decay `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 urba...
Full description- Publisher: Gingko Press
- Published: 02 July 2012
- Format: Hardback 192 pages
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- Categories: Graffiti & Street Art | City & Town Planning - Architectural Aspects
- ISBN 13: 9781584234203 ISBN 10: 1584234202
- Sales rank: 376,295
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Full description for Beauty in Decay
`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 beautylayers 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 windowand physical manifestations of memory that abandoned, impermanent urban spaces can hold. Beauty in Decay features the best in full-color, panoramic photographs from urban explorationor Urbexaround the world.
