num_pages: 192
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: Beauty in Decay: The Art of Urban Exploration
publisher: Gingko Press