Josef Heinrich Darchinger - Wirtschaftswunder

Deutschland nach dem Krieg - Germany after the war - L'Allemagne après la guerre - 1952-1967

Josef Heinrich Darchinger, Frank Darchinger, Klaus Honnef - Collection Photographie

286 pages, parution le 21/10/2008

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Témoignage photographique de l'Allemagne de la deuxième partie du 20^e siècle par le journaliste allemand lors de ses voyages à travers la République fédérale d'Allemagne entre 1953 et 1967.

Edition multilingue : anglais, allemand, français.

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 Gemütlichkeit 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. Of his color photographs, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote, "they are exceptional contemporary documents indicating how swiftly the grayness of everyday life became infused with color again."

L'auteur - Frank Darchinger

In 1977, Frank Darchinger 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 endeavors that his father's work has become accessible to the general public. Today Frank Darchinger works as a freelance photographer in Bonn.

L'auteur - Klaus Honnef

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 Art of the 20th Century (in collaboration, 1988).

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Taschen
Auteur(s)	Josef Heinrich Darchinger, Frank Darchinger, Klaus Honnef
Collection	Photographie
Parution	21/10/2008
Nb. de pages	286
Format	26 x 30
Couverture	Relié
Poids	2367g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9783836500197
ISBN13	978-3-8365-0019-7