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Arwed Messmer. Reenactment MfS
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 173 x 24. Weight in Grams: 850.
In the archives of East Germany’s Stasi secret police, officially named the Ministry for State Security, there are countless photographs of failed escape attempts at the Berlin Wall. In this visual collage, Arwed Messmer (* 1964) presents a selection of these photos and further images of official evidence from the holdings of The Agency of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives. The result is an arresting, complex collage of found, retouched, and recontextualized visual records and Messmer’s own photographs—a working method described by photo critic Gerry Badger as “an artistic reevaluation of history.” Twenty-five years after the fall of ... Read more
In the archives of East Germany’s Stasi secret police, officially named the Ministry for State Security, there are countless photographs of failed escape attempts at the Berlin Wall. In this visual collage, Arwed Messmer (* 1964) presents a selection of these photos and further images of official evidence from the holdings of The Agency of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives. The result is an arresting, complex collage of found, retouched, and recontextualized visual records and Messmer’s own photographs—a working method described by photo critic Gerry Badger as “an artistic reevaluation of history.” Twenty-five years after the fall of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Hatje Cantz
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ostfildern, Germany
ISBN
9783775739115
SKU
V9783775739115
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