From Library Journal
In places, Kuyas's work looks like the precision photography found in engineering texts of the 1930s: portraits of large machines so pristine that they seem to be awaiting their first use. Ironically, Kuyas captures them long after they have been shut down. He prints his black-and-white images in strong contrast, with a special grasp of light and shadow. For seven years the Turkish-born photographer hauled his heavy equipment through silent Swiss factories stilled by an economy that had replaced the former power of concrete and steel with newer technologies. This book is a ghostly travel guide through doorways, stairwells, random furniture, electrical systems, and huge windows staking claim to a doomed territory once full of activity. There is quiet power here: huge dormant machines, vast spaces without workers, and the shock of a world deemed utterly useless. Kuyas gives nobility, dignity, and a sense of death to the engineered world he has so perfectly photographed. A spare text accompanies his images. Recommended.ADavid Bryant, New Canaan P.L., CT
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