Harf Zimmermann - Brand Wand signed copies

Harf Zimmermann - Brand Wand signed copiesSteidl 2015 The soaring, rigid walls of the tenement blocks torn open by the bombing of World War II dominated the German streetscapes of the 1950s. Fire walls, originally integrated in the building and serving as fire shields, suddenly became visible and turned into outer walls. That is how the originally rather technical term got a new meaning: Firewalls as walls spared by the fire. Those long brick walls often adjoin to vast vacant lots once taken

Each picture is the fruit of an unplanned encounter: Though the photographer may know more or less where he is going

This lyrical new work is testament to the endless complexity of a place at once familiar and unknown

architecture

folk tales

“From 1995 to 1998

It is a search for visual answers to the riddle of existence

The book includes Walcott's poem ‘The Bounty’ and a new text by writer and poet Dionne Brand

that nothing ends

revelatory moment

and everyone came for a momentary audition

with works by Man Ray

and was assigned female at birth