On 2000-10-21 Hans Sprungfeld, Seattle WA wrote: If you´re even remotely interested in photography, you´ll enjoy this book. You´ll probably want to enlarge and frame many of the photos within. I bought a poster in a used record store taken from a page in this book, cropped a little on the edges, framed it and have a great wall hanging many people compliment and ask aboout. It didn´t take long for me to check the fine print and determine from where it came. It had to be ordered as I´m sure It´s not well-known. If this book were marketed however, it could target Volkswagen fanatics and, to a lesser degree, car nuts in general. It´s fascinating and a little wierd to see the obsessive order in which all parts were stacked and stored. Also cool are the shots of seemingly endless rows of perfect, new VWs. Beetles and Buses in staight, orderly rows. My first car was a ´68 beetle which I rolled, and later hit a deer in -the deer survived. Beetle ownership, however, is not needed to enjoy this book. And, if you´re simply into displaying books and getting reactions, this represents the most bang-per-buck ever.. And summed up by saying No one cares. Currently Volkswagen: A Week at the Factory has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Peter Keetman claimed One of the best-known and best-loved cars ever manufactured, the VW Bug was a symbol for decades of a casual lifestyle replete with breezy outings. But the 71 duotone photographs in this elegant paperbound volume offer a striking contrast to this populist impression. In 1953, photographer Peter Keetman spent a week at a Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, emerging with a collection of remarkable images that, although rejected by the Volkswagen publicists, transform the parts of the popular car into works of abstract art gleaming stacks of hoods and fenders trace sinuous lines reminiscent of Edward Weston´s seashells; bolts of cable look like exotic plants; sheet metal takes on a life of its own. Arranged in the order of the car´s manufacturing process, accompanied by three essays on photography and Volkswagen production, Volkswagen: A Week at the Factory is a landmark in the history of industrial photography and a timeless look at a contemporary icon.
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