Description: Title: HeimatAuthor: Peter BialobrzeskiDescription: First Edition. Oblong quarto. Illustrated with 34 full-page color photographs, lovely large-scale images of the German countryside and its visitors. Dust jacket near fine and photos are fine condition. Peter Bialobrzeski's fascinating and disturbing collection of photographs from the skyscraper landscapes of Asian megacities, Neon Tigers, enchanted many. It was selected as one of the best-designed German books of 2004 and awarded the German Photography Book Prize. After his return from Asia, Bialobrzeski spent more than two years traveling through his native Germany. Heimat,which is German for "homeland," is the result. For Germans, Heimat is a rather difficult term, embodying conflicting tendencies: destiny and coincidence, sentimental kitsch for pensioners and revisionists, and lost paradise or childhood trauma. In Bialobrzeski's own words, "Having a home means having roots, which is not the same as being rooted to the spot." And since he is more interested in creating images than in detailing the places from which they spring, Heimat is "not a book about Germany as homeland per se." Rather, it creates a fixed image of "a personalized bit of visual and cultural history that goes beyond Germany's dark past, its reunification, and the 'German disease.'" Bialobrzeski's haunting new photographs act as projection surfaces for modern humankind's yearning for home and for nature--an homage at once to German Romanticism and to the works of contemporary American color photographers. Book Type - Fine Art Photography If you are interested in more than one title, please contact me and I can combine shipping. SHIPPING: SHIPPING CALCULATED BY EBAY IN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES. I SHIP USPS MEDIA RATE UNLESS OTHER SHIPPING TYPE IS REQUESTED. ADDITIONAL CHARGES APPLY FOR THOSE OTHER THAN USPS MEDIA RATE. INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING RATES AND HANDLING APPLY! For International Customers:Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost.These charges are the buyer's responsibility.Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding or buying.If there is a remote charge for your address, we will charge you for additional shipping.Thank you!
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Location: Austin, Texas
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Peter Bialobrzeski
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers; Bilingual edition (February 1, 2006)
Topic: Photography
Subject: Art & Photography
