Amber Books, who published this title, has a whole line of photobooks covering man-made debris. The two hundred photos in this book show abandonment around the world selected from Alamy, Dreamstime, Getty Images and Shutterstock photo agencies. One advantage of this is that all the photos are taken by professionals and they all have quite comprehensive captions making the book a step up from the usual abandoned/ruins titles that just have a photo and maybe a line about where it was taken.
I think it's worth saying that the exterior and interior photos just show abandonment rather than photos of vandalisted interiors. Photobooks of Detroit a decade or so back had plenty of photos showing property strewn about interiors, a school classroom for example, or a laboratory.
The photos are a worthwhile mix of exterior (probably the majority) and interior images showing buildings and metal structures taking over the look of continuous neglect and all looking remarkably still, devoid of any human activity. I liked the interior photos of control panels, circular gauges, rusting gears and chains that once were churning some big or small products.
The book is a nice print job (with a two hundred screen) on good matt art paper and I thought very reasonably priced.
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