Author: | Behrens, Annette (Leer G, 1979) - Busch, Christophe & Raymond Frenken. |
Title: | (in matters of) Karl: project by Annette Behrens. VERY FINE COPY. |
Publisher: | Fw:Books, (Amsterdam), 2015 |
Description: | Stiff pictorial wrappers (softcover), 29,7 x 21 cms., (128) pp., (color) illustrations. design Hans Gremmen. |
Note: | First Edition. 'In 2007 a photo album was anonymously gifted to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., its contentstirring world wide media attention. The album contains more than one hundred images depicting the everyday life of Nazis working in theAuschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in Poland.The album is nowadays referred to as the ?H?cker Album? named after its owner: Karl Friedrich H?cker. The photographs reveal the relationships of high ranking officers and auxiliary personnel, they show the people who are depicted living a normal? life, detached from the horrendous crimes they committed.(in matters of) Karl is a research-project about the photo album itself and the historic information shown in the images. Besides, it deals with the reproduction of images and the representation of historic images and information in archives. The different layers are held together by the story of the journey I took to realise this work and the confrontation with my own German heritage'. |
Book No: | 26224 |