The Table of Power 2
Jacqueline Hassink
Hatje Cantz
English
Texts by Jacqueline Hassink, Annegret Pelz and Michiel Goudswaard
Hardcover
Red Edition
224 Pages
265 x 325 mm
2012
ISBN 9783775733359
A comparison and photographic panorama of “tables of power”. The financial crisis of 2009 shook the global economy to its very foundations. Yet has anything changed at the centers of power since? Do executive suites look different than they used to? And what do they actually look like? A decade ago, Jacqueline Hassink (*1966 in Enschede, the Netherlands) captured images of desks and conference room tables at what were at the time the largest multinational corporations in the world. Magnum photographer Martin Parr included her project in his catalogue of the most important photo books of the twentieth century. Today, the artist is taking another look at the headquarters of the approximately fifty companies that the American business magazine Fortune lists as the most powerful actors on the market: banks, insurance companies, and corporations such as Shell, BP, Volkswagen, and ING. With scientific precision, Hassink focuses on the desks and tables in deserted, soulless rooms—as if emptiness was one of the inherent features of power.
About the Artist
Jacqueline Hassink was born in July 1966 in the Netherlands. Hassink is well known for her global art projects that deal with the world of economic power. Her work represents visual, graphic, and sociological maps of the axes of global economic structures. Her first art project, The Table of Power (1993–95), was followed by projects such as: Car Girls (2002–08), Haute Couture Fitting Rooms, Paris (2003–12), and The Table of Power 2 (2009-11), which was nominated for the 2012 Paris Photo/Aperture Book Award as one the ten best photo books of the year. The Table of Power 2 was also the runner up for the PhotoEspaña Best Photography Book of the Year Award. She sadly passed away in November 2018 in the Netherlands due to cancer.
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About the Publisher
Hatje Cantz is an international specialist publisher for art, architecture, photography, design, and visual culture, founded by Gerd Hatje in Stuttgart in 1945. Since then, Hatje Cantz has produced and published illustrated books with a high level of quality, both in terms of content and production.
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