»WORKINGMAN`S DEATH« Images & Texts on Work in the 21st Century by Michael Glawogger 260 pages Published: German original: 01/2006 by Mandelbaum Verlag ISBN: 3-85476-186-4 These are stories that revolve around photography, travel, the making of a film, and a particular way of viewing the subject of work. The movie Workingman's Death visits a number of different continents and explores the importance of heavy manual labor in the twenty-first century. In the first half of the previous century, the worker was still being stylized into a role model, into the pillar of support in various social systems, even into a hero. Now he has lost much of this prestige, and yet he still has to work just as hard as before. Today, the hero role has been assumed by others. The book gives extra information about the locations and ideas presented in the film. The places that did end up in the movie are supplemented here by stories that were filmed but discarded, trips to and research done in Tanzania, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Russia. It tells about the beauty of the still unfinished and the motifs of the recurring, about losses and the small victories a photographer may experience every once in a while. order at: World Sale		»WHORES' GLORY« A Triptych about Prostitution by Michael Glawogger 260 pages Published: German original: 09/2011 by orange press ISBN: 978-3-936086-56-0 Whores’ Glory is a triptych about prostitution: three places, three cultures, three religions. In Thailand women wait behind windows, gaze at their reflections, and see themselves. In Bangladesh men satisfy their lust in a ghetto that keeps women like prisoners. And in Mexico women pray to a female figure of death to keep from seeing and feeling their own realities. In powerful words and images Michael Glawogger describes these places, imagines dialogues between the sexes, and portrays the women who have told him their stories. Whores’ Glory is Michael Glawogger's companion book to his new eponymous documentary film. order at: orange press amazon