Research Catalog

Title

Robert Polidori : topographical histories.

Author

Polidori, Robert,

Publication

Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, 2018.

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Details

Description

77 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 35 cm

Summary

Robert Polidori has been making books at Steidl for over 18 years now, and for many of his visits he lodged in an apartment adjacent to the publishing house. To the left of this, at Düstere Strasse 6, stands a small humble house, not only the oldest dwelling in Göttingen but, dating back to 1310, one of the oldest half-timber houses in all of Germany. Miraculously never demolished over the centuries (just altered, repaired and patched up), it has now been restored by Gerhard Steidl and today houses the Günter Grass Archive, part of the University of Göttingen.0'Topographical Histories' presents Polidori?s 2016 photos of the interior walls of the building, whose glorious crumbling layers?fourteenth-century structures of wattle and daub, clay bricks and plaster, and remnants of paint and wallpaper from different centuries?bear witness to living history. Polidori focuses on the subtle colorations and depth and complexity of these surfaces, creating an unconventional, painterly architectural portrait.

Uniform Title

Photographs. Selections

Alternative Title

• Photographs.
• Topographical histories

Subject

• 1300-1399
• Architectural photography
• Dwellings > Göttingen > History > 14th century > Pictorial works
• Dwellings
• Germany > Göttingen
• Half-timbered houses > Göttingen > History > 14th century > Pictorial works
• Half-timbered houses
• Polidori, Robert

Genre/Form

• History.
• Pictorial works.

ISBN

3958295495

LCCN

9783958295490

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries