Wall / Kai Wiedenhöfer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiedenhöfer, Kai.

Contributor:

Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish-Arab relations.

Walls.

Boundaries.

Israel--Boundaries--West Bank--Pictorial works.

Israel.

West Bank--Boundaries--Israel--Pictorial works.

West Bank.

Walls--Political aspects--Israel--Pictorial works.

Walls--Political aspects--West Bank--Pictorial works.

Jewish-Arab relations--Pictorial works.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

104 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 31 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen : Steidl, [2007]

Summary:

"Over a nine meter wall you cannot shake hands," says a Palestinian pensioner who lives in the shadow of Israel's growing Separation Barrier. Kai Wiedenhvfer, who documented the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and has been photographing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for more than a decade, has spent the last few years documenting inhabitants of the Occupied Palestinian Territories who find themselves in the path of the barrier. He has also documented the growing barrier itself, a 650-kilometer mix of walls, fences, ditches and earth mounds that serves as a border between Israel and a projected future Palestinian entity. Working in color and black-and-white with a 6x17 cm panoramic camera, Wiedenhvfer has produced depictions of the wall--and life in its lengthening shadow--that make it hard not to share his view, informed by a life in Berlin, that separation barriers do not offer real solutions to political conflict.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

ISBN:

9783865211170

3865211178

OCLC:

124038068