J. Ladd: The Awful German Language - Couverture souple

Ladd, Jeffrey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3959053444 ISBN 13 : 9783959053440

Editeur : Spector Books, 2020

Synopsis

An ex-pat's photographic homage to the dissonances of word and image

In 2011 the American photographer and Errata Books publisher Jeffrey Ladd (born 1968) moved to Cologne, Germany, and began photographing his surroundings while learning the basics of the German language. In the process, he collected lists of interesting German vocabulary words (professions, places, things, common terms and outdated terms), which he juxtaposes with his black-and-white photographs; two different types of language--one visual, one verbal--describing a sense of his new home.

Borrowing its title from Mark Twain, The Awful German Language embraces a state where the combination of word and photograph can resonate or remain dissonant and confused depending on the individual reader. An index of definitions in English at the back of the book is provided as a learning tool, but one that requires some work on the part of the learner to decipher its code.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Spector Books
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3959053444
• ISBN 13: 9783959053440
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 246
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• Personne responsable: non disponible