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

Depresión en Zarums

Black Diamonds

Open Shields

Ge(ssenwiese), K(anigsberg)

Library for Radioactive Afterlife

Potosì en sol mineur

Der Pott

industrial culture in the Ruhr area

Black Album

Gold: Serra Pelada Gold mine

Black Diamond

Albert Renger-Patzsch. Die Ruhrgebietsfotografien

Undercity

Copper Geographies

Battleship Island

Mikhailovna Called

Gold and Silver

38.00 EUR

Arktikugol

Charbon arctique

La vie sur terre

Archéologie de la mine

Wilderness to Wasteland

Cry Sadness into the Coming Rain

Duskdust

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

What Remains / Ciò Che Rimane

Charleroi

Congo Mine I Congo Town

An Acid River Runs Through It

in de Mijnstreek / on Coal Mining in Limburg

Seacoal

Platinum

Mining Section (Bureau des mines)

collaborative notes

City of Mines

Images of the Past: The Miners Strike

The Miners from Beringen

Norilsk

Nitrate

Coal not dole

The miners' strike 1984/1985

Gunkanjima

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

Legacy of the Mine

RAMP

Viaggio nel profondo delle miniere di zolfo siciliane

Tales from the city of gold

After the Mines

Ffos-Y-Fran Open Cast Mine

Tagebau

The world of mining

Coal India Limited

On the Mines

Bottrop-Ebel 76

Donbass

Terrils

Uranbergbau Wismut 1946–1990

in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone und in der DDR

Coal Mines And Steel Mills

Colstrip, Montana

The Beautiful Time: Photography by Sammy Baloji

Zeche Hannover/Hannover coal mine

The Place of No Roads

Plundering Appalachia

the tragedy of mountaintop-removal coal mining

Australian minescapes

La miniera

Bingham Mine/Garfield stack

Quarries: The Quarry Photographs of Edward Burtynsky

Diamond Matters: From the Mines to the Jet-Set

Paesaggi industriali del Novecento

siderurgia e miniere nella Maremma toscana

The Mining Photographs

Zeche Westfalen I/II Ahlen

La dernière mine

The Road to Coal

Changing Mines in America

Consuming the American Landscape

Mineros: mineurs de Bolivie

Grafters

Marion mining & dredging machines photo archive

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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