Harf Zimmermann Brand Wand - Couverture rigide

Harf Zimmermann

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3869306289 ISBN 13 : 9783869306285

Editeur : Steidl, 2015

Synopsis

De 1988 à 2012, le photographe allemand Harf Zimmermann a photographié les façades des immeubles d'Allemagne d'après-guerre. Intitulé Brand Wand qui désigne un mur pare feu, cette série révèle des murs aveugles aux fenêtres bouchées, des lieux souvent abandonnés ou jamais réhabilités depuis la guerre.

A propos du livre

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The soaring, rigid walls of the tenement blocks torn open by the bombing of World War II dominated the German streetscapes of the 1950s. Fire walls, originally integrated in the building and serving as fire shields, suddenly became visible and turned into outer walls. That is how the originally rather technical term got a new meaning: Firewalls as walls spared by the fire. Those long brick walls often adjoin to vast vacant lots once taken up by buildings that were never reerected after the war. Windowssometimes bricked up againcover the walls without any rational order, bearing witness to the troublesome moments of Germanys history, just like smut, traces of bullets, shrapnel holes, the outlines of previous buildings, and provisional repairs. The remarkable housing boom following the fall of East Germany whitewashed most of the scars and overgrew the occasional graffiti and advertisements originally decorating those walls. A look behind them revealslike a negative form of the same castthe imprint of the buildings story.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Steidl
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3869306289
• ISBN 13: 9783869306285
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible