Format:
239 Seiten
ISBN:
9783960985754
,
3960985754
Content:
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, what do we know about East-German photography? Resulting from several years of research led by Sonia Voss in Berlin and several other cities of former G.D.R., this publication presents the work of 16 photographers, still rarely shown outside of their country, that have developed their work during the decade preceding the fall of the Wall. The economy was crumbling, the country was in free fall, all that was left was to wait for its unavoidable collapse. Boredom, desire for someplace else, impatience – sometimes melancholic, sometimes enraged – were created by this state of repression, uniformisation and the shortage experienced by youth of this time. The existential and artistic strategies are as diverse as the artists that have been through this period: confrontation of social taboos, withdrawal and introspection, evasion through dreams, self reinvention through dressing up and dramatisation. The body is often at the center of their experimentations, drawing from hybridization and performative art to express their thirst for subversion and speed, or to observe faces and bodies in order to ward off their falling apart. In this book, women have an important place reflecting the specificity of their social status in East Germany.
Note:
"This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Restless Bodies: East German Photography 1980-89, curated by Sonia Voss, at the Rencontres internationales de la photographie in Arles, 1 July - 22 September, 2019" - Impressum
Additional Edition:
Parallele Sprachausgabe Rencontres de la photographie (50. : 2019 : Arles) Les libertés intérieures
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Schwarzweißfotografie
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Porträtfotografie
;
Ostdeutschland
;
Geschichte 1980-1989
;
Deutschland
;
Fotografie
;
Geschichte 1980-1989
;
Ausstellungskatalog
Author information:
Mahler, Ute 1949-
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Buchwald, Kurt 1953-
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Paul, Manfred 1942-
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Bara, Tina 1962-
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Schulze Eldowy, Gundula 1954-
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Florschuetz, Thomas 1957-
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Marquardt, Sven 1962-
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Mahn, Eva 1947-
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Wüst, Ulrich 1949-
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Eisler, Christiane 1958-
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Voss, Sonia 1978-
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Bergemann, Sibylle 1941-2010
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Dammbeck, Lutz 1948-
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Schäfer, Rudolf 1952-
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York der Knöfel 1962-2011
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Stötzer, Gabriele 1953-
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