LIFE
FORCE
The magazine of the photo-essay
June 2017 back issue
Maxikraft
by Jörg Gläscher
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film & documentary maker
The photographs in this book do not show a world with cranes, but rather the world OF
cranes, and of the humans who turn these monsters into useful machines.
This is a genre of photography known as the industrial documentary. We smell the oil
and hear the grinding sound of the winches; we sense the risk of what might happen
should something go wrong. But we also see the people with clean hands sitting at their
desks, taking care of the logistical background and providing work for those operating
the cranes.
We experience the cosmos of a crane company and we see the life lived by a crane
family – with its proverbial highs and lows.
After Der Tod kommt später, vielleicht (2011), winner of the 2013 German Photo Book
Award in Silver, Maxikraft is Jörg Gläscher's second photo book.
