Martin Ransby, Keld Helmer-Petersen, Used Hardware

Used Hardware

Martin Ransby, Keld Helmer-Petersen

Publisher
Marrow Press
Year
2026
ISBN
978-87-973811-6-8
Specifications
softcover, OTA binding with flaps
17 x 21.5 cm
168 pages
170 g Arctic Volume White + 80 g Munken Print Cream 15 paper
Danish / English
Edited by Finn Wergel Dahlgren, Martin Ransby and Jacob Birch
Texts by Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen and Jonas Georg Christensen
Design: Spine Studio
Production: Narayana Press

Two photographic series by Keld Helmer-Petersen and Martin Ransby, both depicting the former IBM headquarters in Lundtofte, north of Copenhagen. In the late 1970s Helmer-Petersen, working as architectural photographer for the architect Jørgen Bo, photographed the newly built complex: polished and white, set among low hedges and neatly planted young trees. In early 2021 Ransby came upon the same buildings standing vacant and worn, the young trees grown tall and unruly. Helmer-Petersen had unrestricted access inside and out; Ransby approached from the back, where entry was forbidden, moving along the periphery of the site. Together the two series form a visual dialogue across time, and the book leaves room for what happens in the space between the photographs and the two experiences.

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