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This title is an artists exhibition catalogue of digital prints on
paper and fabric, by Carl Jaycock.
"Do Not Refreeze" charts a 'lost' chapter in the history of
European photography. These photographers developed their practice
in the former East Germany negotiating its omnipresent secret
police to create imagery, increasingly compared to that of
luminaries such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus and Robert
Frank. The stunning images convey a glimpse of day-to-day life and
evoke the claustrophobia, rage, envy and ideological pomp of the
Communist era as well as its unexpected personal warmth, tenderness
and exoticism. Had they been painters, sculptors, authors or
playwrights, these photographers would have been arrested or
imprisoned. Because photography was not considered to be 'art'
however, they were able to circumnavigate a rigid system of
censorship to produce the most insightful and openly critical
visual arts output in East Germany's 40-year history. This book is
published by Cornerhouse in association with the University of
Hertfordshire.
Kathe Buchler (1876-1930) was a pioneering woman photographer whose
exceptional photographs offer very personal insights into Germany
during World War One, with a particular focus on the home front and
the lives of women and children. Born Katharina von Rhamm in
Braunschweig, Germany, and from a wealthy and privileged
background, she was taught painting as a girl; many of her
photographs have a notably painterly quality. She went on to study
photography at Berlin's Lette Academy which, unusually for the
time, admitted women. Like many women of the upper middle class,
family life with her husband and children was Kathe Buchler's focus
and became the central theme of her photography in the years before
the First World War. During the war itself, in the most public
phase of her career, her leading role in local institutions,
including the Red Cross, gave her largely unrestricted access to
the city's war effort and she produced unexpectedly intimate
photographs of daily life in Braunschweig, in the city's military
hospitals, as well as in the revealing series `Women in Men's
Jobs'. As a result, she offers us a distinctive vision, raising the
intriguing possibility of presenting the conflict from the
perspective of women and children.Surprisingly, Buchler's work
remained unknown outside its immediate locality, but it was
exhibited in the United Kingdom for the first time between October
2017 and May 2018, allowing the process of placing it within its
proper international context to begin. This catalogue, marking the
exhibition Beyond the Battlefields, contains a wide selection of
Buchler's work, including some of her exquisite Autochromes (using
the world's first commercially available colour photographic
process). The accompanying essays introduce the artist and address,
amongst other things, the role of amateur photography in
documenting war. In depicting the minutiae of daily life against
the backdrop of war and its aftermath, Buchler's remarkable
photographs speak to us across the intervening century, disrupting
national stereotypes and opening up fresh perspectives on the Great
War.
Rachel Garfield uses video, painting and photography to make work,
which explores the gap between an individual's perception of their
identity and the perceptions of others. A common theme in all her
works, in whatever medium, is the way in which they layer multiple
experiences and viewpoints. The presence of the artist as both
subject and interviewer is also a recurring feature. The work
places stereotypes alongside the subject of those stereotypes, to
examine issues of identity, racism and belonging. However, the
viewer is offered no easy pointers as to how to respond. Garfield
presents us with a complex, multi-faceted view of the individuals
concerned, and their relationship to their communities and
histories.
Photographic work detailing site specific wall painting and
contextualising essay.
Mapping the Unseen: The Art of Ahmed Moustafa is a short monograph
on the work of artist Ahmed Moustafa.
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