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Josef Heinrich Darchinger. Wirtschaftswunder (English, German, Hardcover, Bilingual edition)
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Josef Heinrich Darchinger. Wirtschaftswunder (English, German, Hardcover, Bilingual edition)
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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. For
this revised edition, we have digitally remastered all
photographies in a new, full-frame format that captivate with their
highly pigmented colors and fine press varnish.
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