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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taschen Gmbh
ISBN-13
9783836507332
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95557613
Product Key Features
Book Title
Josef Heinrich Darchinger, Wirtschaftswunder
Author
Klaus Honnef
Format
Hardcover
Language
English, German, French
Publication Year
2008
Number of Pages
290 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
396mm
Item Width
330mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Klaus Honnef
Editor
Frank Darchinger
Country/Region of Manufacture
Germany
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