Industrial photography appears here as a broad visual field in which labour, technology, architecture, production, and social organization become visible.

The book brings together works from the MAST Foundation collection and examines how photography has shaped the perception of industry from early modernist experiments to documentary, conceptual, and contemporary approaches.

The material includes photographs from the exhibitions Industrial Worlds, Human Capital in Industry, and The Factory Photographs. Together, they address factories, machines, workers, infrastructures, and the changing image of industrial production. David Lynch’s Factory Photographs form a particular focus, presenting industrial sites not as functional spaces alone, but as atmospheric, often ambiguous environments.

The selection includes key works from Man Ray’s Electricité portfolio as well as photographs by André Kertész, August Sander, August Renger-Patzsch, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lewis Hine, Sebastião Salgado, Thomas Struth, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Robert Doisneau, Walker Evans, Harry Gruyaert, Toshio Shibata, Simon Norfolk, Lee Friedlander, Peter Keetman, Timm Rautert, Walter Vogel, and others.

The essays examine the relationship between photography and industry, the visual construction of work, and the transformation of the factory into a social as well as aesthetic subject.