Georg Kussmann - FRG (signed) tbw booksMACK 2023 The German dramatist Heiner Muller observed that German history lies as if smothered by a rheumatism blanket: beneath there is warmth and stagnation, just enough to give the impression all is well, while the peripheries are freezing. Georg Kussmanns photographs in FRG were created under this metaphoric blanket. Made in the Federal Republic of Germany over a single summer, they depict everyday scenes of life, work, and leisure under which
and Barbara Levine & Paige Ramey (Project B)
he is not burdened by the compulsion of efficiency
Published by Ute and Werner Mahler 2004
intimacy and lust and undergo a slow process of contamination from the outside
Co-published with Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
and politically engaged work in this collection
from aerial reconnaissance and the American dustbowl to Mussolini’s final car journey and the wars in Iraq
headed meetings and promoted the growing Black Power movement
” The black-and-white films used in the photographs have something in common with the notion of life and death in the Tohoku region
distorted through the lens of the media- scape that immerses us
I came through areas which reminded me physically and emotionally of my home town in Saxony
Schuman interweaves a selection of these clippings published between 2014-2018