Photographs: Alec Soth
Publisher: Optimal Media
98 pages
Pictures: 63
Year: 2011
Hardcover with dust jacket, 252 × 190 mm. First edition, 2011. New condition.
Farbenlehre is a company book produced by Michael Mack for Optimal, a German print and multimedia production agency in the northeast of Germany, intended to showcase their various print techniques and papers, all of which are detailed in the text booklet. Soth’s photographs show various aspects of the factory, the manufacturing processes, and employees, with excursions into the surrounding area.