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RAF : no evidence = kein Beweis / Arwed Messmer ; Redaktion, Martin Hager ; Übersetzungen ins Englische: Greg Bond, Simon Cowper.
Van Pelt Library TR647 .R34 2017 Book + appendix
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- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie (2017 : Mannheim, Germany)
- Standardized Title:
- RAF (Hatje Cantz Verlag)
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Messmer, Arwed, 1964- RAF--Exhibitions.
- Messmer, Arwed.
- Rote Armee Fraktion--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Rote Armee Fraktion.
- Photography, Artistic--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Documentary photography--Germany--Exhibitions.
- Documentary photography.
- Crime scenes--Germany--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Crime scenes.
- Legal photography--Exhibitions.
- Legal photography.
- Vernacular photography--Exhibitions.
- Vernacular photography.
- Messmer, Arwed, 1964-.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition, pictorial works
- Exhibition catalogs
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 33 x 24 cm + 1 appendix (44 pages in various pagings ; 32 x 22 cm)
- Other Title:
- Rote Armee Fraktion
- No evidence
- Kein Beweis
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2017]
- Language Note:
- Main text in German. Appendix in German and English, translated from German.
- Summary:
- "Numerous accounts of the RAF and the 'German fall' of 1977 have been given over the past forty years, from journalistic, historical, literary, cinematic, and artistic perspectives. Arwed Messmer works with the various photographs made by police photographers at the time - pictures of demonstrators, crime scene images, and mug shots. He asks how this historical search for criminological evidence can be employed artistically today. His narrative strikes an arc from the beginnings of the RAF to the multiple eruptions of violence in 1977, the abduction and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer, and the deaths of Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe in Stammheim prison. Messmer's work also has an ethical dimension, asking which photographs can be shown, how can they be shown, and why we want to see them? This investigation touches on a key issue in the debate on images that are both historical documents and pictures with their own aesthetic quality and a powerful and independent potential for an empathetic examination of history"--Back cover of supplement
- Notes:
- Appendix includes texts by Arwed Messmer, Florian Ebner, and Uta Grundman
- On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, June 9 - September 3, 2017; in cooperation with the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim, September 9 - November 5, 2017.
- Contains no title page, title from dust jacket.
- Book has special paperback binding with spine not covered.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contains:
- Messmer, Arwed, 1964- RAF.
- ISBN:
- 9783775743464
- 3775743464
- OCLC:
- 1004661043
- Publisher Number:
- 9783775743464
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