SCHERER, Diana - De vrede moe / The Peace Weary

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Until the end of the nineteenth century, the French poet Mallarmé claimed that everything in the world existed to produce a book. He could just as easily have argued that every book exists to produce another book.
'De Vrede Moe' was created in 1994 after a murder in Rotterdam and became a book of photographs with around one hundred penetrating police photos from the period 1905 to 1967. When Menno Wigman first saw pictures of this, he soon began to write a series of poems. On his first date with the visual artist Diana SCHERER, Wigman spoke enthusiastically about his fascination with the murder in Rotterdam. To his great surprise, it turned out that Diana SCHERER had taken a series of photographs that were also inspired by the police photos from Rotterdam.
Shortly afterwards, he and Diana SCHERER became a couple and decided to combine their work in the volume 'De Vrede Moe'. The result is this impressive book, which sheds light on the phenomenon of murder in every conceivable way. The translation into English was done by John Irons and the book design by Willem van Zoetendaal." (free translation of the publisher's text, © Van Zoetendaal, 2013)

About German photo artist, Diana SCHERER (b.1971)

Photo books by and with works by Diana SCHERER