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Fabrik.
A Photo Epos of Technology.
Photographs by Jakob Tuggener. Afterword by Martin Gasser.
Steidl / Kunstmuseum Olten,
Gottingen,
2011.
62 pp., 95 tritone illustrations, 9x12¼".
Publisher's Description
Jakob Tuggener's Fabrik, published in Zurich in 1943, is a milestone in the history of the photography book. Its 72 images, in the expressionist aesthetic of a silent movie, impart a skeptical view of technological progress: at the time the Swiss military industry was producing weapons for World War II. Tuggener, who was born in 1904, had an uncompromisingly critical view of the military-industrial complex that did not suit his era. His images of rural life and high-society parties had been easy to sell, but Fabrik found no publisher. And when the book did come out, it was not a commercial success. Copies were sold at a loss and some are believed to have been pulped. Now this seminal work, which has since become a sought-after classic, is being reissued with a contemporary afterword.
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