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Title: SC-Dead Tech
ISBN: 0871563479
Author:
Manfred Hamm
Publicate Date: 1983-09-12
Publish: 1983-09-12
List Price: $14.95
Average Customer Rating: 2.5
Format: Paperback
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Amazon Lowest Used Price: $7.64
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1: Amateur Pictures; Overly Emotional, Whiny Text
I just got this book today. I flipped through it and was not at all impressed with the photography. Any amateur could take those shots. Then I started to read it. The first section of text, "The Ruins Complex" by Robert Jungk is terrible. As a scientist I was unspeakably annoyed at his melodramatic, disparaging attitude towards R&D and his overall theme that all technology is facing imminent breakdown resulting in possible inconvenience but more likely disaster. Throw this book on your coffee table if you want visitors to think you have poor tastes. On top of it all, the book seems to be poorly bound. My copy looks to be in excellent condition but I can see the thread holding the pages in and it feels like its going to come apart every time I flip a page. Skip it, its not worth even the shipping costs.
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2: Disappointing
Dead Tech -A Guide to the Archaeology of Tomorrow dates from 1981, with the English version in 1982 and a 2000 reprinting. Its coverage of dead factories, rail-yards, harbors, and aircraft boneyards is a disappointment. Manfred Hamm's inconsistent mixture of black & white and color photographs give the book a disjointed feeling. The quality of the photographs themselves is inconsistent. A few rise to the level art exhibited by Stanley Greenberg (Invisible New York) and Christopher Payne (New York's Forgotten Substations), while most are no better than I (a decidedly amateur photographer) might have done in a hurry with my trusty Pentax K1000 and a roll of T-Max 100 or Ektachrome 64. The accompanying text by Rolf Steinberg is noisome -- perhaps a victim of a less-than-artful translation into English. I haven't yet decided whether I will hold on to this book.
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3: A photo book of phenomenal measures, but with too many words
I found this book pretty, but it had alot of words in it. I was hoping for more photography. The pictures is does contain are stunning, powerful and very, very "Dead Tech".
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