Exhibition

Exploitation of Natural Resources: Mining of Rocks, Minerals and Coal

Apr. 9th – Jul. 2nd 2022

Paradiso, Switzerland

In 2019, our Foundation opened to the public the first section of Artphilein Library in Lugano: the photobooks. The library’s acquisition policy is guided by the research fields on which our Foundation focuses its activities. Among these, prominence is given to the analysis of the relationship between humans and our planet, of how much we modify, shape, consume and destroy it. The photobooks exploring the exploitation of natural resources – of which the first chapter, "Roc…
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77 editions on edcat featured in this exhibition

Black Diamonds

Open Shields

Depresión en Zarums

Ge(ssenwiese), K(anigsberg)

Library for Radioactive Afterlife

Der Pott

industrial culture in the Ruhr area

Potosì en sol mineur

Gold: Serra Pelada Gold mine

Black Diamond

Black Album

Undercity

Battleship Island

Albert Renger-Patzsch. Die Ruhrgebietsfotografien

Mikhailovna Called

Copper Geographies

Gold and Silver

38.00 EUR

Arktikugol

Charbon arctique

La vie sur terre

Archéologie de la mine

Wilderness to Wasteland

What Remains / Ciò Che Rimane

Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain

P(ech) B(lende). Library for Radioactive Afterlife

Duskdust

Seacoal

An Acid River Runs Through It

Charleroi

in de Mijnstreek / on Coal Mining in Limburg

Congo Mine I Congo Town

Mining Section (Bureau des mines)

collaborative notes

City of Mines

Platinum

Images of the Past: The Miners Strike

Nitrate

Norilsk

The Miners from Beringen

Kennecott Mine: A Pictorial Journey Of The 1900's Copper Mine

After the Mines

Coal not dole

The miners' strike 1984/1985

Tales from the city of gold

RAMP

Viaggio nel profondo delle miniere di zolfo siciliane

Gunkanjima

Legacy of the Mine

Ffos-Y-Fran Open Cast Mine

Tagebau

Donbass

Bottrop-Ebel 76

On the Mines

The world of mining

Uranbergbau Wismut 1946–1990

in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone und in der DDR

Terrils

Coal India Limited

Colstrip, Montana

The Beautiful Time: Photography by Sammy Baloji

Zeche Hannover/Hannover coal mine

Coal Mines And Steel Mills

The Place of No Roads

Plundering Appalachia

the tragedy of mountaintop-removal coal mining

La miniera

Australian minescapes

Bingham Mine/Garfield stack

Diamond Matters: From the Mines to the Jet-Set

Quarries: The Quarry Photographs of Edward Burtynsky

Paesaggi industriali del Novecento

siderurgia e miniere nella Maremma toscana

Zeche Westfalen I/II Ahlen

La dernière mine

The Mining Photographs

The Road to Coal

Changing Mines in America

Consuming the American Landscape

Mineros: mineurs de Bolivie

Marion mining & dredging machines photo archive

Grafters

Smutna Kajina

Severozapadni Cechy 1957-1962

The Black Triangle

The Foothills of the Ore Mountains

Pennsylvania coal mine tipples

Mining Photographs and other Pictures 1948-1968

A Selection from the Negative Archives of Shedden Studio, Glace Bay, Cape Breton

Maloche: Leben im Revier

Welsh Coal Mines

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