Wolfgang Bellwinkel No Land called Home
Wolfgang Bellwinkel investigates something that might be described as a state of mind: the longing for otherness, for strangeness, and the restlessness of someone who seeks exceptional experiences, and perhaps knowledge, in far-away climes. Bellwinkel builds a collage combining photographs from the last 18 years with his own short stories, which function as autonomous companions of the photographic material. Photographs taken in Asia come together with images of war and post-war scenes in Afghanistan, the Middle East and the Balkans to somehow form a coherent whole. Private shots are interwoven with documentary images, world events with biographical interludes. The book demonstrates a deep commitment to biographically oriented photography, which its author places in the context of events taking place in a constantly changing, globalized world. Wolfgang Bellwinkel (b. 1959) lives and works as a photographer, curator and lecturer in Berlin and Southeast Asia. He recently curated the exhibition Das Vertraute im Fremden / Foreign Familiar for the Goethe Institute Bangkok, with stops in Manila, Yogyakarta and Phnom Penh.
Hardcover
17 x 22 cm
352 pages
209 color illustrations
German, English
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-376-1
2012
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Wolfgang Bellwinkel investigates something that might be described as a state of mind: the longing for otherness, for strangeness, and the restlessness of someone who seeks exceptional experiences, and perhaps knowledge, in far-away climes. Bellwinkel builds a collage combining photographs from the last 18 years with his own short stories, which function as autonomous companions of the photographic material. Photographs taken in Asia come together with images of war and post-war scenes in Afghanistan, the Middle East and the Balkans to somehow form a coherent whole. Private shots are interwoven with documentary images, world events with biographical interludes. The book demonstrates a deep commitment to biographically oriented photography, which its author places in the context of events taking place in a constantly changing, globalized world. Wolfgang Bellwinkel (b. 1959) lives and works as a photographer, curator and lecturer in Berlin and Southeast Asia. He recently curated the exhibition Das Vertraute im Fremden / Foreign Familiar for the Goethe Institute Bangkok, with stops in Manila, Yogyakarta and Phnom Penh.
Hardcover
17 x 22 cm
352 pages
209 color illustrations
German, English
Available
ISBN 978-3-86828-376-1
2012
Artists:
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