Superstructure (SIGNED COPY)
POWER, Mark (photos and brief text)
Sold by David Bunnett Books, London, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 11 May 2005
Used - Hardcover
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Add to basketSold by David Bunnett Books, London, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 11 May 2005
Condition: Used - As new
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketExtra large landscape quarto size (4to) in blind embossed grey faux cloth, black lettering to spine 195pp plus 13pp team list, mainly colour & b/w photos taken throughout the construction of the London Dome (now called the O2). Signed by Mark Power on the title-page (no other marks or inscriptions) . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread and unmarked copy in an AS NEW complete Dust Jacket. An excellent copy ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . To see more of our Photo books type DbbPHOTO in the Keywords search box . . . . . . . . . . . . NOTE Due to size and/or weight standard shipping to destinations outside the UK will cost more than the price shown above. Orders made by card will be completed after you have approved the extra cost . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.
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Inspired by a global event, the Dome at Greenwich has been a British construction project of unprecedented ambition, an engineering feat of mind-boggling statistics. Superstructure is a remarkable record of the Dome’s genesis up to the day that it opened to the public, 1 January 2000.
The photographer Mark Power was granted privileged access to the site by the New Millennium Experience Company; he first visited the North Greenwich peninsula in October 1996, and in well over one hundred subsequent trips recorded its transformation from toxic wasteland to architectural icon. The Dome he portrays is a monument to human endeavour, a challenge of epic proportions realised against almost overwhelming odds, a place where colossal architectural components and brutal machinery have been tamed and harnessed through highly choreographed teamwork. His photographs are deliberately devoid of people – feeling that it would be inappropriate to focus on the role of individuals, he instead pays homage to the team spirit that has driven the project.
Companies from virtually every sector of the British economy, and further afield, have left their collective stamp on the Dome. Providing a counterbalance to Mark Power’s photographs, a list of over ten thousand names records the contribution of the vast number of organisations and individuals without whose tenacity the project would simply not have been possible – from those who decontaminated the peninsula to those who welcomed the first public visitors. Focusing on the people behind the project, this comprehensive roll call gives a very different perspective on the human resources that have brought the Dome to life.
Mark Power is an experienced documentary photographer whose work has been exhibited widely and published in several major magazines, including the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Independent and the Daily Telegraph. His book, The Shipping Forecast, a photographic documentary of Britain’s most far-flung, seabound places, has to date sold over 10,000 copies. He has been a member of Network Photographers since 1988. In his other life he is a Senior Lecturer in Editorial Photography at the University of Brighton.
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