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Script of demolition

Title
Script of demolition / Alina Schmuch ; Herausgeber: Armin Linke, Heike Schuppelius ; Konzept: Alina Schmuch ; Text: Anne König, Alina Schmuch, Philip Ursprung ; Übersetzung: Simon Cowper (Anne König), Jesi Khadivi (Philip Ursprung).
Author
Schmuch, Alina, 1987-
Publication
  • Leipzig : Spector Books, [2014]
  • [Santa Monica, Calif.] : Vertrieb/distribution, USA, Canada: RAM Publications+Distribution Inc.
  • ©2014

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  • Linke, Armin
  • Schuppelius, Heike
  • König, Anne (Editor)
  • Ursprung, Philip
Description
307 pages, 29 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm.
Summary
Often there are only seconds between the ignition of a blasting charge and the collapse of a building, but the planning for such a demolition can take weeks. Blasting is a profession that relies on experience, and that is conveyed through the medium of the image. The blaster, before he destroys the building, makes a complex technical drawing of the progression. The detonation itself is then recorded by several cameras from different view points. Afterwards the drawings are superimposed over the photographs in order to control the blast. A permanent calibration, an optimization between the idea and the reality by the means of drawing and photography. In her artistic work, Alina Schmuch also mostly uses the medium of photography. For the project Script of Demolition she worked with the extensive image archive of the blaster family Fink. The publication includes different imaging media - from 8mm film to digital photography. The book presents movement sequences of collapsing chimneys, TV towers and buildings that have been recorded following explicitly nonaesthetic criteria.
Series Statement
Edition 76135, books from the HfG University of Arts and Design ; volume III
Uniform Title
Edition 76135, books from the HfG University of Arts and Design ; v. 3.
Alternative Title
Alina Schmuch, Script of demolition
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Language (note)
  • Text in original German and English translation.
ISBN
  • 9783944669281
  • 3944669282
OCLC
  • ocn920540416
  • 920540416
  • SCSB-9575083
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries