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RAF : no evidence = kein Beweis

Title
RAF : no evidence = kein Beweis / Arwed Messmer ; [Übersetzungen ins Englische: Greg Bond, Simon Cowper].
Author
Messmer, Arwed, 1964-
Publication
  • Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Museum Folkwang Essen, host institution.
  • Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie (2017 : Mannheim, Germany)
Description
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color), portraits; 33 cm +
Summary
"Numerous accounts of the RAF and the 'German fall' of 1977 have been given over the past forty years, from journalistic, historical, literary, cinematic, and artistic perspectives. Arwed Messmer works with the various photographs made by police photographers at the time - pictures of demonstrators, crime scene images, and mug shots. He asks how this historical search for criminological evidence can be employed artistically today. His narrative strikes an arc from the beginnings of the RAF to the multiple eruptions of violence in 1977, the abduction and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer, and the deaths of Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe in Stammheim prison. Messmer's work also has an ethical dimension, asking which photographs can be shown, how can they be shown, and why we want to see them? This investigation touches on a key issue in the debate on images that are both historical documents and pictures with their own aesthetic quality and a powerful and independent potential for an empathetic examination of history"--Back cover of supplement.
Alternative Title
  • Rote Armee Fraktion
  • No evidence
  • Kein Beweis
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, June 9 - September 3, 2017; in cooperation with the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim, September 9 - November 5, 2017.
  • Contains no title page, title from dust jacket.
  • Book has special paperback binding with spine not covered.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Parallel texts in German and English.
Call Number
JQG 18-1038
ISBN
  • 9783775743464
  • 3775743464
LCCN
9783775743464
OCLC
1004661043
Author
Messmer, Arwed, 1964- author.
Title
RAF : no evidence = kein Beweis / Arwed Messmer ; [Übersetzungen ins Englische: Greg Bond, Simon Cowper].
Publisher
Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Language
Parallel texts in German and English.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Museum Folkwang Essen, host institution.
Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie (2017 : Mannheim, Germany)
Other Standard Identifier
9783775743464
Research Call Number
JQG 18-1038
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