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"No other river symbolizes German history or that of the Germans and their eastern neighbors more memorably than the Elbe. An area of scenic beauty, yet a wounded beauty endangered by man and his industry; a border river where Eastern and Western Europe and their various political developments meet.Content
Photographer Jörn VANHÖFEN has explored this tension between history and today's image with sensitivity. He gets involved with the ephemeral and atmospheric, he discovers Elbe ports and cities and of course the faces of the Germans and Czechs living here - but he does not transfigure. And just as he stopped the 'river of images' for the moment of photographing it, Walter Kempowski and Jens Sparschuh set it in motion again: stories of life on the Elbe, biographical memories that for one are linked to long walks along Hamburg's harbor, for the other to memories of bathing adventures in Dresden." (© Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2000)
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Jens Sparschuh
- Format
- HC with dust jacket, 27 x 22 x 1 cm., 119 pp., color ills., German text only
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