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Pirelli Work.
Photographs by Chris Killip. Essay by Clive Dilnot.
Steidl / Eskildsen,
Gottingen,
2007.
128 pp.,
50 tritone illustrations,
13¾x11".
Publisher's Description
Chris Killip, born 1946 on the Isle of Man, is one of
the most influential photographers and teachers
to have come out of the United Kingdom. His work
in the late 1970s and 1980s defined an era; it has
received numerous prizes and is included in most
major museum collections. Of Pirelli Work, taken at
the famous tire manufacturer’s plant, he says,“I
wanted to show the manufacturing process as
clearly as I could, and to do so in this factory meant
it would have to be lit . . . The workplace had
become, in a real sense for me, a theater and I
embraced the look of these new photographs with
their relation to fashion, film noir, and even Soviet
Realism. For me this ‘look’ seemed a more telling
way to record and document this enforced ritual.”
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