Stoffwechsel
Subtitle: die Ruhrchemie in der Fotografie = Metabolic processes : Ruhrchemie in photography
By: LVR-Industriemuseum und Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen (Hg.) ; Autoren, Dr. rer. nat. Guido D. Frey [and six others]
Contributors: Rheinisches Industriemuseum; Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen
Publisher: Verlag Kettler
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Dortmund
Language: ger
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9783862067107
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Industrial Photography; Chemical industry; Ruhrchemie Aktiengesellschaft
Other titles: Metabolic processes :; Stoffwechsel.; Stoffwechsel. English.
Description: More than perhaps any other company, Ruhrchemie AG has, since its foundation in 1927/1928, continuously managed to document its own history. In addition to numerous professional and amateur photographers, Ruhrchemie has also commissioned luminaries of the profession such as Albert Renger-Patzsch and Robert Häusser. Renger-Patzsch's cool approach, always striving to be objective, was ideally suited to the representation of both industrial architecture and works of engineering. Contrary to his images, which are mostly devoid of human beings, Häusser's photographic exploration of Ruhrchemie captures, as its central subject, people in their workplace. Apart from his trademark black and white photos, far more than one hundred color slides have been preserved in the company's archive. Many of these are published here for the very first time. Spanning a period of almost one hundred years, this book presents the entire range of topics and forms featured in the collection. Not only does it portray the constant variation in visual language but also the technical changes the medium has undergone. Exhibition: LVR-Industriemuseum Peter-Behrens-Bau, Oberhausen, Germany (16.09.2018 - 17.03.2019) / Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen, Germany (16.09.2018 - 24.02.2019).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the LVR-Industriemuseum, September 16, 2018 - March 17, 2019, and at the Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, September 16, 2018 - February 24, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in German and English.