Wonderful photographs (via Metafilter) of old industrial landscapes, by German photographer Harald Finster. Some of my favourites, after a brief look around, here, here, here, here, here, or, in colour, here. But really, if you like this kind of stuff, you can’t lose.
Of course (I say of course here to indicate my familiarity with this field….oh yes!) the doyens of this type of industrial photography are husband and wife Bernd and Hilla Becher (examples here and here, but I can’t find much on-line). Their books of photographs are published by MIT, and don’t come cheap. I’d recommend their “Blast Furnaces” (no really) – absolutely stunning, though I suppose it’s something of a minority taste. Maybe you need to have been brought up in an industrial area (for me, Sheffield) to go for this kind of thing.
Mick Hartley 
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