CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/19/2016

Chris Killip: Pirelli Work

"The Pirelli pictures are an exploration of work and of the being that emerges through work and in work which is irreducible to all that we thought work was and to all that we thought those-who-work are," Clive Dilnot writes in Chris Killip: Pirelli Work, Steidl's surprisingly captivating new collection of photographs made at a Pirelli tire factory. Calling on Milan Kundera, he continues, "These pictures cannot be experienced as things already in the world because although grounded in an actuality (but one different from what we suppose) they present us, almost secretly, with a new perspective on the world—an inaugural grasp on an understanding of being that is no longer tied to the apron strings of history but instead defined in terms of our capacities and our potentialities."