8630 Mariazell
By: Erwin Polanc ; Übersetzung = translation, Stephan Grynwasser
Contributors: Tragatschnig, Ulrich, writer of supplementary textual content; Hoffelner, Christian, interviewer
Series: Fotohof edition -- Band 244; Fotohof Edition -- Bd. 244.
Publisher: Fotohof edition
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Salzburg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9783902993441
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Landscape photography; Portrait photography; Pictorial works
Other titles: Mariazell 8630; Erwin Polanc :; 8630 Mariazell.; 8630 Mariazell. English.
Description: After (the small rural community of) Neumarkt and (the old mining town of) Eisenerz, Erwin Polanc has now trained his photographic lens on Mariazell. In doing so he has focused on yet another remote inner-Austrian town, which is itself retrospective in its orientation and therefore underscores the nature of photography as an image of remembrance; but unlike the two aforementioned localities, Mariazell is also bound to the presence of the holy. The town of Mariazell is a perfect illustration of how the circles out of which the centre defines itself can be concealed. Of how loftily the centre towers above all else, and its axiality is broken as it descends into the profane. Erwin Polanc has captured that stumble and the reactions of the profane.
Notes: Reproductions of photographs.

Includes bibliographical references.

Texts in German and English.
Table of contents: title: Die Fotografie als Ort der Wunder =; title: Photography as a wondrous place  -- Ulrich Tragatschnig; title: Erwin Polanc in conversation -- Christian Hoffelner.