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This title covers Germany after the war 1952 - 1967.It was no more than eight years after the surrender of the Nazi government when Josef Heinrich Darchinger set out on his photographic journey through the West of a divided Germany. The bombs of World War II had reduced the country's major cities to deserts of rubble. Yet his pictures show scarcely any signs of the downfall of a civilization. Not that the photographer was manipulating the evidence: he simply recorded what he saw. At the time, a New York travel agency was advertising the last opportunity to go and visit the remaining bomb sites.Darchinger's pictures, in color and black-and-white, show a country in a fever of reconstruction. The economic boom was so incredible that the whole world spoke of an "economic miracle." The people who achieved it, in contrast, look down-to-earth, unassuming, conscientious, and diligent. And increasingly, they look like strangers in the world they have created. The photographs portray a country caught between the opposite poles of technological modernism and cultural restoration, between affluence and penury, between German Gemutlichkeit and the constant threat of the Cold War. They show the winners and losers of the "economic miracle," people from all social classes, at home, at work, in their very limited free time and as consumers. But they also show a country that looks, in retrospect, like a film from the middle of the last century.
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Frank Darchinger was born in Bonn in 1949. In 1977, after having finished his studies in English and German literature, he began his career as a photojournalist, while also assisting his father, Josef Heinrich Darchinger, with the classifying and updating of his legendarily vast and efficient photographic archive. It was through his endeavours to make his father's work accessible to the general public that the organizing of photographic exhibitions and the designing of photographic books and catalogues became one of his main activities. Today Frank Darchinger works as a freelance photographer in Bonn. Josef Heinrich Darchinger started working as a freelance photojournalist in 1952. Darchinger's photographs began to regularly appear in reputable German print media starting in the mid-1960s. In his years as a photographer for Spiegel and Die Zeit, Darchinger had a formative influence on the magazines' national news coverage of Bonn. He also presented his work at exhibitions and in collections of photographic portraits - for instance of Helmut Schmidt, Willy Brandt, Richard von Weizsacker, or of Heinrich Boll. Darchinger received numerous awards, among which was the prestigious Dr. Erich Salomon Award from the German Photographic Association. Klaus Honnef is professor of photography theory at the Kassel Art Academy. He was one of the organizers of documenta 5 and documenta 6 in Kassel, and has been the curator of more than 500 exhibitions in Germany and abroad. He has written numerous books, including TASCHEN's Contemporary Art (1988), Andy Warhol (1989), and Pop Art (2004).
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- PublisherTaschen America Llc
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 3836507331
- ISBN 13 9783836507332
- BindingLeather Bound
- Number of pages288
- EditorDarchinger Frank
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Wirtschaftwunder: Deutschland nach dem Krieg 1952 - 1967: Collector's Edition : Deutschland nach dem Krieg 1952-1967; Germany after the war; L' Allemagne apres la guerre. Text dtsch.-engl.-französ.
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Book Description Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Neu. Neu - Die Collector's Edition ist weltweit auf 1.000 Exemplare limitiert, nummeriert und von J.H. Darchinger signiert. Für Sammler besonders wertvoll: Dem Band liegt die signierte Originalfotografie Berlin, Reichstag, 1958 bei. Gerade einmal acht Jahre nach der Kapitulation von Nazi-Deutschland begann der Fotograf Josef Heinrich Darchinger mit seiner fotografischen Reise durch den Westen des geteilten Deutschland. Die Bomben des Zweiten Weltkrieges hatten die deutschen Großstädte in Schuttwüsten verwandelt, Zeichen des Untergangs einer Zivilisation finden sich in seinen Bildern aber kaum. Dabei hat der Fotograf nichts unterschlagen, er hat lediglich dokumentiert, was er sah. Während dieser Zeit warb ein New Yorker Reisebüro mit der letzten Möglichkeit, die wenigen verbliebenen Trümmer besichtigen zu können. In Farbe und Schwarz-Weiß werfen Darchingers Bilder den Blick auf ein Land im Wiederaufbaufieber. So rasant war der wirtschaftliche Aufschwung, dass alle Welt vom 'Wirtschaftswunder' sprach. Im Kontrast dazu wirken die Menschen, die es vollbrachten, nüchtern, bescheiden, pflichtbewusst und fleißig - aber zunehmend auch wie Fremde in der Welt, die sie schufen. Die Fotografien zeigen ein Land im Widerspruch zwischen technischem Fortschritt und kultureller Restauration, zwischen Überfluss und Elend, zwischen 'deutscher Gemütlichkeit' und ständiger Bedrohung durch den Kalten Krieg. Sie zeigen die Gewinner und Verlierer des 'Wirtschaftswunders', Menschen aller sozialen Schichten, privat, im Beruf, in der kärglich bemessenen Freizeit und beim Konsum. Sie zeigen aber auch ein Land, das im Rückblick wie ein Kinofilm aus der Mitte des vergangenen Jahrhunderts erscheint. Über seine Farbfotografien schrieb die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, sie seien 'seltene Zeitdokumente, die zeigen, wie schnell in den grauen Alltag wieder Farbe zurückkehrte.' 290 pp. Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch. Seller Inventory # INF1000572573
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