Wiedenhöfer : Confrontier : borders 1989-2012 / [photography: Kai Wiedenhöfer ; texts: Stefanie Rosenkranz].

Main entry:

Wiedenhöfer, Kai.

Title & Author:

Wiedenhöfer : Confrontier : borders 1989-2012 / [photography: Kai Wiedenhöfer ; texts: Stefanie Rosenkranz].

Publication:

Göttingen : Steidl, 2013.

Description:

approximately 184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm

Notes:
Contains no title page, title from cover.

Summary:

In 1989 Kai Wiedenhöfer photographed the fall of the Berlin Wall in his hometown, and was deeply moved by this experience of history unfolding. At the time, Wiedenhöfer, like many, believed this event would mark the end of walls being employed as political tools and dismissed them as anachronistic instruments of division. Over twenty years later, history has proved us wrong; indeed walls have enjoyed a barbaric renaissance. Border barriers have been erected in the US, Europe, and the Middle East in the aftermath of political, economic, religious and ethnic conflicts. Wiedenhöfer has documented walls in Belfast, Ceuta and Melilla, Baghdad, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the American-Mexican border, Cyprus, Korea as well as the remains of the Iron Curtain. 'Confrontier' presents Wiedenhöfer's comprehensive project and evidences his conviction that walls are not solutions to today s political and economic problems, but proof of human weakness, error and our inability to communicate with one another.

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Inhaltstext

ISBN:

9783869305509 (hd. bd.)
3869305509 (hd. bd.)

Subject:

Wiedenhöfer, Kai 1966-2024
Blutiger Jupiter Musikgruppe Europa
Boundaries Pictorial works.
Frontières Ouvrages illustrés.
Boundaries
Grenzbefestigung
Fotografie
Mittlerer Osten
USA

Form/genre:

Bildband.
Illustrated works

Added entries:

Rosenkranz, Stefanie.

Confrontier : borders 1989-2012
Borders 1989-2012

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285067
Call No.: BIB 224408
Status: Available

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