Bøker av Martin Krieger

This book is based on the enormous correspondences of Nathaniel Wallich, preserved in libraries across Calcutta, London, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Munich and many other places. The work also studies Wallich's professional and private life.

Photographs of actual people at work in various industries in Los Angeles and its environs: cloth, wood, metal, oil, and chemicals. Most of us have little sense of how the stuff of our lives is actually manufactured and the places where that happens. Los Angeles is one of the premier industrial concentrations in the United States. This book shows the reader just what they ordinarily do not see. Krieger has visited hundreds of industrial sites in the Los Angeles area. He is invited in about a third of the time, and then he systematically photographs the people--at work--who make clothing, furniture, chemicals, metal parts, as well as those working at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and at the iconic County Hospital of Los Angeles. Up close, we discover the actual work that people do, and the places where they do that work.

This book is based on the enormous correspondences of Nathaniel Wallich, preserved in libraries across Calcutta, London, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Munich and many other places. The work also studies Wallich's professional and private life.

His aim is to give an account of design, one that experienced designers will say,'Yes, That's just what it is like!' At the same time, Krieger offers an analysis of the tensions that design operates within;