Land's end
Subtitle: der ort der "Topographie des Terrors" im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Fotografie = the "topography of terror" site as reflected in contemporary photography
By: Michael Disqué, Andreas Gehrke (Hg.).
Publisher: Drittel Books
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9783981886610
Subjects: Pictorial works; Holocaust memorials; Artistic Photography; Stiftung Topographie des Terrors
Other titles: Ort der "Topographie des Terrors" im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Fotografie; "Topography of terror" site as reflected in contemporary photography
Description: The?Topography of Terror? is a one of the most significant memorial sites of recent times. How is the past inscribed in the landscape? How do we regard a place that once housed the central instruments of terror of the Nazi regime? How has this no-man?s-land, once at the frontier of East and West, changed over time?00'Land?s End' features ten artists who photographed what is now the Topography of Terror site between 1981 und 2014, including John Gossage, Michael Schmidt and Joachim Brohm. The connection between photography and memory is obvious: photographs, like our memories, are drawn from reality, yet they convey a pictorial materiality all of their own. In their role as editors, Andreas Gehrke and Michael Disqué adopt an artistic approach to address the site, a place that was initially rendered unrecognizable by demolition and repurposing, rediscovered in the 1980s and embedded in the historical memory by the Topography of Terror Foundation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel texts in English and German.