FEUERHELM, Brad - Dein Kampf

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"From its title to its formal arrangement of language, Brad FEUERHELM’s photo book 'Dein Kampf' suggests a commentary on our cyclical anxieties about ideology. Anxiety is implicit in his photographs and Berlin is their natural backdrop, being a city in which several ideologies collided in the twentieth century. The city exemplifies the quagmire of possibilities in which the tensions of historical narrative and contemporary political and ideological doubt are played out in visual motifs throughout the landscape. Fragments of the past and symbols of capitalist modernity underpin the work–banks, insurance companies and people as effigies of citizens appear as a cloaking miasma, the spectre of past, present and no future. The schema of the glitch and the appropriation methods in Brad FEUERHELM's work are subtle enquiries into the contemporary conditions of fear and confusion. Loose associations about changing futures under technology, religion, immigration and the future of the photographic image also loom large. 'Dein Kampf' is Brad FEUERHELM’s proposition about how we activate image and ideology in the book form." (publisher's note, © Mack Books, 2019)
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About the photographer, Brad FEUERHELM (b. 1977 in America)
Brad FEUERHELM is a photography collector, artist, curator, dealer, and writer on photography.
He has published several books on his collection, work, and has written for many different magazines both in print and on-line. In 2012, he published his first book with 'Self Publish Be Happy' (Coll. MOMA, NY) in 2012 and has since published several more books.
Brad FEUERHELM is the Managing Editor and Partner for American Suburb X.