Published by 5 Continents Editions in 2006, [2797°F] Carlo Valsecchi examines industrial spaces and the world of steel production through photographs that make scale, colour, and form their primary subjects. The title invokes the extreme heat associated with the furnace, yet the book’s interest is not confined to industrial process. Valsecchi treats the factory as a field of architectural abstraction, where structures, surfaces, and intervals can appear monumental, geometric, or almost atmospheric.

The photographs move between the legibility of a working environment and a more elusive visual language. Machinery and built space are not simply recorded as evidence of production; they become arrangements of mass, line, light, and colour. This shift in emphasis gives the work its distinctive tension: the images remain grounded in an identifiable industrial reality while approaching the formal concerns of abstract photography. Their scale is therefore both physical and perceptual, asking the viewer to consider how a place of labour can be transformed by the act of looking.

The volume is further shaped by texts from Marco Meneguzzo and Javier Barreiro Cavestany, whose contributions place Valsecchi’s images within a broader critical and interpretive framework without displacing the photographic sequence. For collectors, the book merits attention as a focused collaboration between an artist working through industrial subject matter and a publisher known for photography. The Italian/English edition comprises 160 pages and 72 colour illustrations in a substantial 38 × 31 cm hardcover format—proportions that support the photographs’ attention to colour, surface, and spatial scale while preserving the work as a considered book rather than a loose portfolio.