With his new book of photographs, Migration as Avant-Garde, Michael
Danner delivers a moving, critical, and thought-provoking
contribution to the current public debate on immigration. He
skillfully combines his own photos and texts with historic images,
and the result is a coherent and multifaceted narrative of the
immigrant experience. Danner has photographed the people who
migrate from their homes, but also "those that influence, prevent,
channel, or impact a migrant's humanity," including border police
and agents of the state. In addition to these portraits, his book
includes archival images of refugees and satellite imagery from
crisis regions. Quotes from Hannah Arendt's 1943 essay We Refugees,
which was also the inspiration for the title, are interspersed
through the book. The events that Arendt wrote about more than
seventy years ago - giving up one's home, one's friends, family,
and language - are more pressing today than ever before. In search
of progress, driven by the desire for a better future, and risking
their lives, people both then and now hit the road, break through
physical and psychological boundaries, and thus provide our society
with new perspectives and ways of thinking.
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