9783929078336

Book Description: Gina Kehayoff Verlag, München, 1998. Soft cover. Book Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Heavy cardstock printed stiff wrappers with title printed in black on covers; with black taped spine. Photographs [selected and edited] by Christian Boltanski. Brief text (in German) by Michael Glasmeier. 56 pp., with 128 black and white reproductions. 5-1/5 x 8-1/4 inches. Out of print. Scarce. CONDITION: New. A pristine, flawless copy. Christian Boltanski changed everything for a period of time in the 1970s and 1980s. That he continues to contribute meaningfully to the dialogue surrounding accumulation, archives, and loss is somewhat remarkable. His assembled collections, not quite typologies, demonstrate a humility and sensitivity to the suffering of, for instance, Jewish people devastated by the holocaust. He created shrines of remembrance, tacit souvenirs, where in their wake were only numbing statistics. Although Boltanski never really addresses the issue of anti-Semitism directly -- it is always oblique and general in interviews -- his work assumes a collective responsibility for some of history's greatest atrocities. From the publisher: "One of the main keys to an interpretation of Christian Boltanski's work lies in an analysis of the concept of time. Faces are a measure of time. "Zeit" is a collection of faces. Portraits of people when they were a child juxtaposed to the adult version. Spotting the differences as well as the similarities is often amusing and at times saddening. Bookseller Inventory # 102570

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