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In the archives of East Germany's Stasi secret police, there are countless photographs of failed escape attempts across the Berlin Wall. Here, German artist Arwed Messmer (born 1964) presents a complex collage of found, retouched and recontextualized visual records and Messmer's own photographs.
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Arwed Messmer re-worked East Germany’s Stasi (Ministry for State Security, officially known as MfS, colloquially known as Stasi) archives, going beyond the creepy or weird, and pointing at the outright evil (I’m not using this word lightly), while showing the role of photography: Reenactment MfS (Hatje Cantz 2014). (Joerg Colberg cphmag.com)
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Condition: as new. Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, c2014. Hardcover. 146 pp. : ills. (some color) ; 24 cm + 1 booklet (28 pages). Text in German and English. [appendix texts, Annett Gro schner, Matthias Flügge ; translations, Greg Bond]. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, October 19 - December 14, 2014. - 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 col-lage 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 af-ter the fall of the Wall, Reenactment MfS takes a new look at a major theme in recent German history, with an alternative approach to understanding contempo-rary history and to the use of photography. With what Florian Ebner describes as documentary empathy, Arwed Messmer challenges the authenticity of the documentary image, which is never completely free of enactment. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9783775739115. Keywords : PHOTOGRAPHY, Seller Inventory # 178901
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