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Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > Photographic reportage
During the Covid 19 pandemic and the lockdown many artists were
thrown back on themselves and started to work creatively with this
unprecedented situation. Shortlist artists from all over the world
were asked by the Prix Pictet, the leading award for photography
and sustainability, and by British daily newspaper, The Guardian,
to show their works from the months of the Corona crisis. The
result, Confinement, a complex artistic and cultural portrait of
this state of emergency, will remain, when the pandemic itself is
history.
The outcome of the Second World War was decided on the Eastern
Front. Denied a swift victory over Stalin's Red Army, Hitler's
Wehrmacht found itself in a bloody, protracted struggle from late
1941 that it was ill-prepared to fight. Although many pictorial
books have been published on Germany's hapless invasion of the
Soviet Union, they are typically a collection of soldiers'
snapshots or 'official' photographs taken by Propagandakompanien
(PK) reporters. This book is different. It contains an
extraordinary personal record of the war captured by a professional
photographer, Walter Grimm, who served in the German Army in a
communications unit. David Mitchelhill-Green brings Grimm's
previously unpublished photographs together with a carefully
researched introduction. The 300 evocative black and white images
provide an absorbing insight into the daily life and privations of
the ordinary German soldier amid the maelstrom of history's largest
conflict. The Ukrainian people, many of whom initially welcomed the
Germans as liberators, freeing them from the yoke of Bolshevik
oppression, are also chronicled in this fascinating study of the
fighting in Ukraine.
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