Michael Ruetz: Eye on Time (Englisch)

Michael Ruetz

ISBN 10: 3865215777 / ISBN 13: 9783865215772

Published by Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, 2008

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Michael Ruetz beobachtet Hunderte von Landschaften und Cityscapes in Deutschland und Europa. In Berlin verfolgt er hier die Wirkungen der Zeit mit dem Wechsel des politischen Systems. 360 pages, 29.7 x 21.4 cm.

Seller Inventory # St 02_80_00

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Michael Ruetz: Eye on Time (Englisch)
• Publisher: Steidl Verlag, Göttingen
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3865215777
• ISBN 13: 9783865215772
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Wie neu
• Dust Jacket Condition: Wie neu
• Weight: 1817 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Gesellschaft
  • Fotografie photographie art

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Synopsis

Since the 1960s, Berlin-based Michael Ruetz has photographed hundreds of urban scenes and landscapes throughout Europe. His works make time and transience visible. In Berlin, he traced the effects of political and societal upheaval on architecture and public space--buildings appeared and disappeared, vacant lots and gardens were developed, Marx-Engels-Platz was renamed Schloßplatz while Potsdamer Platz was transformed from a no-man’s land into a high-rise district, all of which caused Berlin’s skyline to rapidly transform--a destabilizing event for a city’s inhabitants. Ruetz’s series of photographs are like short films that develop over a long period of time--landscape and cityscape become timescape. This monograph is a time-lapse document that bears witness to how architecture shapes and reshapes our habitats and how interpretation triumphs over our perception.