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War Souvenir

Categorie	Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer	#331992-AE2
Titel	War Souvenir
Auteur	Ventura, Paolo
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Contrasto
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	8889032979
ISBN13	9788889032978
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original pictorial boards, 4to.
Samenvatting	It is World War II. The corpse of a soldier lies someplace in the mountains of central Italy; in Milan, a German hidden in the cellar of a house in Via Monte Nevoso is captured by partisans; in Turin, German soldiers look at the body of a member of the partisan organization, who has just been killed in a shoot-out. These are only three of the photographs Paolo Ventura has included in War Souvenir, a book which reflects and recounts the crude intensity of that war. But unlike the work of other photographers, Ventura's pictures are clearly fake: the images are the result of meticulous preparation, and each one presents a non-existent but apparently truthful memory. The soldiers are dummies, the scenes and objects in which they act are all in miniature. Ventura represents war as a g... (Lees verder)ame in a grotesque dollhouse, but he does so without abandoning either war's emotion or its pain. His photographs constitute a profound and surprising reflection on the power of documentation and memory.
Pagina's	108
Conditie	Goed — Still shrink wrapped.
Prijs	€ 15,00

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