Annett Gröschner/Arwed Messmer - Taking Stock of Power (signed) America

Annett Gröschner/Arwed Messmer - Taking Stock of Power (signed) AmericaHatje Cantz 2016 Out of print! In our collective memory, the Berlin Wall is a monolithic concrete barrier, but back in 1966 it was a motley ensemble of the walls of buildings, concrete and cement slabs, and barbed wire mesh. Photographer Arwed Messmer and author Annett Grschner have embarked on a long term project on this early Berlin Wall, based on thousands of historical photographs taken by East German border troops. Their first award winning book

abandoning any objectifying distance

me on mine

“high hopes” is the result of a three-year critical study of Sotschi

The essays reflect this on a variety of levels: Janos Frecot’s examination of the changes in the urban space

between Paris and Zurich

haunted and creaturely

which emphasises the psychology of the depicted objects in addition to the sophisticated color dramaturgy

ambitious in its combination of image and text

Teju Cole began to photograph his kitchen counter in Cambridge

but when someone questioned my presence

relevant to the artist on a personal and collective level

Sotschi’s inner conflict