
Kein schöner Land
- Publisher
- Steidl
- Year
- 1989
- ISBN
- 978-3-88243-127-8
- Specifications
- 29.5 x 23 cm
180 pages
Hardback / Clothbound
German
Over a period of ten years, Dirk Reinartz documented his homeland, the Federal Republic of Germany, with his camera. He presents the results here: seventy-nine uncanny images of Germany - failed attempts to discover a home in a sprawling, fragmented landscape and blocky, concrete, neatly laid impositions. These black and white photographs make it possible to take a new look at our everyday world by showing what we see so often that we no longer really notice it. They present the everyday in all its bizarreness and lack of dignity. Where practical compulsions are combined with the ignorance of the authorities, places have sometimes emerged that look like something out of a science fiction film. Even though people rarely appear in these pictures, each one still refers to people.