http://blog.quintinlake.com/2010/01/26/photograph-of-interior-of-abbey-mills-pumping-station-featured-on-the-cover-of-into-the-belly-of-the-beast-exploring-londons-victorian-sewers/ Adventures in Architectural, Documentary & Expedition Photography | Quintin Lake Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.quintinlake.com/2010/01/26/photograph-of-interior-of-abbey-mills-pumping-station-featured-on-the-cover-of-into-the-belly-of-the-beast-exploring-londons-victorian-sewers/#comment-358 Drawing Parallels Reviewed in London Society Journal Issue 459, Spring 2010 « Architectural Photography Blog | Quintin Lake Wed, 19 May 2010 14:11:39 +0000 http://blog.quintinlake.com/?p=1178#comment-358 [...] On pp. 22-3, a bleak Thames estuary landscape comprising the Barking Creek tidal barrier, resembling a giant guillotine, and the outfall of the Beckton Sewage Treatment works, is compared with a drier and more mysterious landscape in Yazd, Iran, with two square brick wind-towers, a conical brick building used as a refrigerator, and in the background a Zoroastrian Tower of Silence. I noted here the hidden nature of disposal – in the case of the Tower of Silence, the laying out of the corpses of the deceased on top of the tower is ritualistic, while the sewage works operate a mechanised and secular process of disposal (though one could compare some Victorian views of the sewer system, outlined by Dobraszczyk in “Into the Belly of the Beast”, also reviewed in this issue, and for which Quintin Lake provided the dustjacket image). [...] [...] On pp. 22-3, a bleak Thames estuary landscape comprising the Barking Creek tidal barrier, resembling a giant guillotine, and the outfall of the Beckton Sewage Treatment works, is compared with a drier and more mysterious landscape in Yazd, Iran, with two square brick wind-towers, a conical brick building used as a refrigerator, and in the background a Zoroastrian Tower of Silence. I noted here the hidden nature of disposal – in the case of the Tower of Silence, the laying out of the corpses of the deceased on top of the tower is ritualistic, while the sewage works operate a mechanised and secular process of disposal (though one could compare some Victorian views of the sewer system, outlined by Dobraszczyk in “Into the Belly of the Beast”, also reviewed in this issue, and for which Quintin Lake provided the dustjacket image). [...]

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