Background information
"Paris, in the summer of 1937. For the last time, nations hold a seemingly peaceful rendezvous at the World's Fair. Nazi Germany is represented by a gigantic tower designed by Albert Speer with a swastika. Encouraged by the French, Cologne was the only city in the world to build its own pavilion with a café terrace on the Seine. While the war has long been prepared in secret, the people of Cologne invoke international understanding there. Here the brutal appearance of German fascism, there its wine-blessed, comfortable variant.
All this is captured on film by the young photographer Karl Hugo SCHMÖLZ, who will document Cologne's post-war architecture twenty years later. Based on hitherto unexploited sources from Paris, Berlin and Cologne, Mario Kramp reconstructs a forgotten episode of Franco-German history." (free translated publishers text, © Greven Verlag, 2019)
About German photographers, Hugo SCHMÖLZ and Karl Hugo SCHMÖLZ
Photo books by and about the work of Hugo SCHMÖLZ
Photo books by and about the work of Karl Hugo SCHMÖLZ
- Photographer(s)
- SCHMÖLZ, Hugo / Karl Hugo SCHMÖLZ
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Mario Kramp
- Format
- HC with dust jacket, 22 x 28 x 3 cm., 272 pp., 167 b/w ills.
- Language(s)
- German
- Year of Release
- 2020
- Publisher
- Greven Verlag, Cologne