Die neue Ungleichheit : ein Bildband entlang neoliberaler Architekturen = The new inequality : a photo book tracing neoliberal architectures / Fotografie, Arne Schmitt ; Text, Thorsten Krämer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmitt, Arne, 1984- photographer.

Krämer, Thorsten, 1971- author.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Architectural photography--Germany--Cologne.

Architectural photography.

Neoliberalism--Germany--Cologne.

Neoliberalism.

Cologne (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Cologne (Germany).

Buildings.

Germany--Cologne.

Physical Description:

13, 66 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 23 cm

Edition:

1. Auflage = First edition.

Other Title:

New inequality : a photo book tracing neoliberal architectures

Place of Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books, [2015]

Language Note:

In German and English; English title and texts are inside the folded front and back cover.

Summary:

In March 2009 Cologne's historical Stadtarchiv collapsed: a catastrophe that can be seen as a consequence of a neoliberal programme of urban redevelopment. Yet for all that, critiques of neo-liberalism often run into difficulty because they lack a clearly defined object to focus on. Faced with structural complexities, their analysis and criticism is often directed towards isolated instances. Arne Schmitt confronts this tendency in his book with a resolutely straightforward approach, or with 'uncomplexity'. On a clearly mapped-out walk through Cologne, Schmitt photographs architecture from different periods, all in black and white. The images and the form of the book thus refer back to the theme-oriented photo-books of the 1950s and 1960s, in which political and social critiques of the day were combined with photographic depictions of the city, a level of achievement that is well worth recapturing.

Notes:

Contains no title page, title from cover.

ISBN:

9783959050272

3959050275

OCLC:

947020036

Publisher Number:

9783959050272