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Josef Heinrich Darchinger, Wirtschaftswunder
By (photographer) Josef Heinrich Darchinger, By (author) Klaus Honnef, Edited by Frank Darchinger
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This title covers Germany after the war 1952 - 1967.It was no more than eight years after the surrender of the Nazi government when Josef Heinrich Darchinger set out on his photographic journey through the West of a divided Germany. The bombs of World War II had reduced the country's major cities to deserts of rubble. Yet his pictures show scarcely any signs of the downfall of a civilization. Not that the photographer was manipulating the evidence: he simply recorded what he saw. At the time, a New York travel agency was advertising the last opportunity to go and visit the remaining bomb sites.Darchinger's pictures, in color and black-and-white, show a country in a fever of reconstruction. The economic boom was so incredible that the whole world spoke of an ""economic miracle."" The people who achieved it, in contrast, look down-to-earth, unassuming, conscientious, and diligent. And increasingly, they look like strangers in the world they have created. The photographs portray a country caught between the opposite poles of technological modernism and cultural restoration, between affluence and penury, between German Gemutlichkeit and the constant threat of the Cold War. They show the winners and losers of the ""economic miracle,"" people from all social classes, at home, at work, in their very limited free time and as consumers. But they also show a country that looks, in retrospect, like a film from the middle of the last century.
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Publisher | Taschen GmbH
Published date | 1 Jul 2008
Language | English
Format | Hardback
Pages | 290
Dimensions | 396 x 330 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-3-8365-0733-2
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BISAC | photography / photojournalism
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