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Industrial Archeology - Belgium

Luc Van Malderen / Lise Coirier, éd. Racine, november 2002, 200 p., 20,00€

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A solitary walk and an innovative photographic look at some 200 sites evoking the industrial past of Belgium and Luxembourg.

In the space of about twenty years, Luc Van Malderen has succeeded in capturing on film the faded splendour and formal severity of the buildings that once housed gret industry, today turned into ruins on the road of extinction or protected monuments, preserved as they are or destined for new purposes.

Lise Coirier evokes this source of inspiration, at once artistic and documentary, industrial sites subject to irresistible entropy.