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Josef Heinrich Darchinger, Wirtschaftswunder (English, German, French, Hardcover, Collector's limited ed)
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Josef Heinrich Darchinger, Wirtschaftswunder (English, German, French, Hardcover, Collector's limited ed)
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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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