Iraq

Inspired by military manuals, American ex-soldier Ben Brody's diary-like photo book 'Attention Servicemember' is a passionate exploration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

For his volume 'Wall and Peace', Kai WIEDENHÖFER has documented walls and barrier fences all over the world: in Berlin, Belfast, Mexico, Ceuta & Melilla, in Baghdad and the wall on the border line with the West Bank, with the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Egypt.

In out-of-print volume 'This is War' Moises SAMAN shows what war really means: pain, destruction, darkness. The images are far from that reality that today's media present in the form of hypertechnical video games, as shiny and manipulated TV productions.

The out-of-print volume 'Buzzing at the Sill' by Peter van AGTMAEL is a collection of reflections on war, militarism, identity, family and landscape, among other things. It is both an examination of the limits of photography and a tribute to its power.

The out-of-print 'Causes and Spirits' about William CARTER is both an autobiography and a study of people. Beginning in 1960it documents his travels around the world, from New York to Kurdistan, Dublin to Gaza, with landscapes that often yearn for people.

'The Land in Between', Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG is about the bond between landscape & civilization. Areas of past historical importance show how conflict, destruction & decay transforms landscapes in Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen & Syria

The out-of-print photo volume 'Luc Delahaye 2006 2010' indicate an approach, where the unromantic clarity of the documentary style contradicts the dramatic intensity of the 'tableau' form, to reflect on the relationship between art, history & information.

The mono.kultur issue #37 is dedicated to US-american photojournalist & war reporter James NACHTWEY. One issue consists of photographs, the other of an interview, reproduced in English, about the reality of wars and how images can bring about resistance.

'Hello Camel' by Christoph BANGERT documents the bitter absurdity of war in Afghanistan, Gaza, Darfur, Lebanon and Iraq. He contrasts the clichéd notion of modern war as a fast-paced, dramatic and heroic event with calm and tidy, strange and alien images.

HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20,5 x 26 x 2 cm., 120 pp., 52 color ills., English, Ltd. to 450 numbered copies