Publisher: Jovis, 2004
ISBN: 978-3-936314-51-9
Hardcover
21 x 27,3 cm
144 pages, 87 b/w
English/German
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Germany – no easy homeland. Neither is it one for photographer Bastienne Schmidt who – resident in New York since 1988 – is taking a trip with her camera through the country of her birth. The award-winning artist is discovering a seemingly rejecting, severe and dark, sometimes bizarre, place, looking strange and at the same time familiar through her lens. The photographs, which have a great suggestive power, turn the completely ordinary into a seemingly strange and different world. With portraits that exude a certain distance, unusual perspectives and extraordinary details, Bastienne Schmidt holds up a mirror to the Germans and takes the viewer on a provocative journey through Germany’s past and present.
