In Anatomy of Business, the English photographer Louis Porter deconstructs the visual language of business using company brochures and leaflets from the 1980s.
Seeing these fading black-and-white documents, the bald heads and absurd visual instructions, one imagines a conversation between John Fante, Fernando Pessoa and Italo Calvino at the coffee machine, a conversation that’s necessarily a little sad given the subject, but not without humor, focusing as it does on the cracks and incoherence of the prescribed protocols.
The corporate seam was previously worked by Paul Shambroom in his Meetings, published by Chris Boot in London, which examined the moments of absence and epic loneliness felt by employees in meetings. The images, taken across the United States over the course of four years, are accompanied by the meetings’ minutes, reproduced on bible paper.
Two perfect books for a retirement party.
Antoine Soubrier
Anatomy of Business
Photographs by Louis Porter
publisher: Twenty Shelves, 2012
64 pages
Meetings
First Edition limited to 50 copies
Photographs by Paul Shambroom
publisher: Chris Boot, 2005
