"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. Beauty in Decay features the best in full-color, panoramic photographs from urban exploration or Urbex around the world. Overgrown industrial ...
Read More
"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. Beauty in Decay features the best in full-color, panoramic photographs from urban exploration or Urbex around the world. Overgrown industrial complexes, disused lunatic asylums, abandoned palaces and forgotten monasteries are showcased, and paired with clear-sighted, poetic text.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good. Slight rubbing to edges and bumping to corners otherwise in very good condition. Next day dispatch by Royal Mail in sturdy, recyclable packaging. 1000's of satisfied customers! Please contact us with any enquiries.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good with no dust jacket. 0955912148. Light wear to spine, covers and corners. Top of spine slightly scuffed/dented. Lower tip of spine and outer tips of covers slightly scuffed.; Light wear to spine, covers and corners. Top of spine slightly scuffed/dented. Lower tip of spine and outer tips of covers slightly scuffed. Clean, hardly used copy. Spine v good. With beautifully and thoughtfully presented photographs this is a striking visual anthology that captures the haunting allure of abandoned spaces of the urban landscape. This book showcases a collection of photographs depicting decayed buildings, forgotten factories, and derelict structures reclaimed by nature. Each image reflects a unique blend of beauty and desolation, celebrating the aesthetic appeal of ruin and neglect. The artists involved in this project aim to document and transform urban decay into a form of art, highlighting the transient nature of human constructs and the passage of time.; 26.5 x 26.6 x 2 cm; 192 + pages.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good. 2012. Pictorial boards. 4to. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated. Mild shelf wear to boards, corners moderately bumped. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Photography. )
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
New. 0955912148. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--192 pages. Publisher description: "Just who decides which doors are closed in our world and whose interests do they serve? Do we wish to be kept in the dark, permanently safe, free from either harm or adventure? For all of us there is a deep attraction to be found in opening these doors. They open a rift in our collected experiences and throw new light on the boundaries we've all been forced to accept. There is only one way to find out what's hidden behind these barriers. Sit back, hold on and surrender to your imagination as we unlock the door to an extraordinary unseen world of beauty in decay."--with a bonus offer--
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
