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Der Schatten des Fotografen

Author : Helmut Lethen
Publisher : Rowohlt Verlag GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3644119112
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Der Schatten des Fotografen written by Helmut Lethen and published by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Foto eines vertrauten Menschen kann uns berühren «wie das Licht eines Sterns» (Roland Barthes); die Bilder flüchtender Kinder führen die Schrecken des Krieges geradezu schmerzhaft vor Augen. Wie kommt es, dass Fotos eine so ungeheure Wirkung auf uns haben? Wie viel Wirklichkeit steckt in oder hinter den Bildern? Helmut Lethen geht diesen Fragen auf einem Streifzug durch die Kunst- und Mediengeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts nach: Er zeigt uns am Beispiel der berühmten Fotografien Robert Capas von der Landung in der Normandie, wie aus Bildern Geschichtszeichen werden; er folgt gebannt den Performances von Marina Abramović, in denen Kunst und Wirklichkeit verschmelzen; er vertieft sich in das ironische Zeichenspiel des Konzeptkünstlers Bruce Nauman, das jede Realität dahinter verschwinden lässt; er entdeckt in idyllisch anmutenden Bildern jene totale Verlassenheit, die ihn bereits als Kind erschreckte. Lethen erläutert, was Bilder sind und was sie vermögen, ohne dabei die Wirklichkeit hinter ihnen preiszugeben. Ein eindringliches Plädoyer und eine Schule des Sehens in einer unübersichtlichen Zeit.

Behind the Wall

Author : Ines Geipel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509559981
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Wall written by Ines Geipel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern regions. Why have those parts of Germany that used to be part of the old GDR turned out to be so supportive of extremist groups and parties and such fertile ground for violence and hatred? To try to find answers to this question, Ines Geipel, the former East German Olympic athlete, returns to her past in order explore the matrix of fear and anxiety that shaped the lives of people in the GDR. Spurred on by conversations at the bedside of her brother as he lay dying of a brain tumour, she probes into her own family background and discovers a web of secrets and denial that reflected larger processes of East German society. She finds that her father had worked as a special agent for the Stasi until the service had no further use for him, and her grandfather had joined the Nazi party in 1933 and was stationed in Riga at a time when tens of thousands of Jews were murdered in the nearby forests. Silence and denial within her family was mirrored in the collective loss of history outside her home, and the repression of ideological non-conformity made it difficult for a traumatized population to grapple with and come to terms with a brutal past. Instead, a politics of forgetting emerged which served the ends of an authoritarian state and seeped into private lives of individuals with deep and lasting consequences. This powerful memoir, grippingly told, will appeal to anyone interested in the history of modern Germany, in the rise of far-right extremism and xenophobia and in the historical forces that shape the present.

Kracauer

Author : Jörg Später
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509533036
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Kracauer written by Jörg Später and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siegfried Kracauer was one of the most important German thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings on Weimar culture, mass society, photography and film were groundbreaking and they anticipated many of the themes later developed members of the Frankfurt School and other cultural theorists. No less remarkable were the circumstances under which he made these contributions. After his early years as a journalist in Germany, the rise of the Nazis forced Kracauer into exile – first in Paris and then, after a protracted flight via Marseilles and Lisbon, to the United States. The existential challenges, personal losses and unrelenting hardship Kracauer faced during these years of exile formed the backdrop against which he offered his acute observations of modern life. Jörg Später provides the first comprehensive biography of this extraordinary man. Based on extensive archival research, Später’s biography expertly traces the key influences on Kracauer’s intellectual development and presents his most important works and ideas with great clarity. At the same time, Später ably documents the intensity of Kracauer’s personal relationships, the trauma of his flight and exile, and his embrace of his new homeland, where, finally, the ‘groundlessness’ of refugee existence gave way to a more stable life and, with it, some of the intellectually most fruitful years of Kracauer’s career. The result is a vivid portrait of a man driven both by an urge to capture reality – to attend to the things that are ‘overlooked or misjudged’, that still ‘lack a name’, as he put it – and by a need to find his place in a hostile, threatening world.

To be at Home

Author : James Williams
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110580136
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book To be at Home written by James Williams and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houses and homes are dynamic spaces within which people work to organize and secure their lives, livelihoods and relationships. Written by a team of renowned historians and anthropologists, and and accompanied by original photography by Maurice Weiss, To Be at Home: House,Work, and Self in the Modern World compares the ways people in different societies and historical periods strive to make and keep houses and homes under conditions of change, upheaval, displacement, impoverishment and violence. These conditions speak to the challenges of life in our modern world. The contributors of this volume position the home as a new nodal point between work, the self and the world to explore people’s creativity, agency and labour. Houses and homes prove complex and powerful concepts – if also often elusive – invoking places, persons, objects, emotions, values, attachments and fantasies. This book demonstrates how the relations between houses, work and the self have transformed dramatically and unpredictably under conditions of capitalism and modernity – and continue to change today.

Inscribed Identities

Author : Joan Ramon Resina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429663897
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Inscribed Identities written by Joan Ramon Resina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine’s Confessions, Rousseau’s book of the same title, and Salvador Dalí’s paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions. Like all genres with a distinguished career, autobiography has elicited a fair amount of critical and theoretical reflection. Classic works by Käte Hamburger and Philippe Lejeune in the 1960s and 70s articulated distinctions and similarities between fiction and the genre of personal declaration. Especially since Foucault’s seminal essay on "Self Writing," self-production through writing has become more versatile, gaining a broader range of expression, diversifying its social function, and colonizing new media of representation. For this reason, it seems appropriate to speak of life-writing as a concept that includes but is not limited to classic autobiography. Awareness of language’s performativity permits us to read life-writing texts not as a record but as the space where the self is realized, or in some instances de-realized. Such texts can build identity, but they can also contest ascribed identity by producing alternative or disjointed scenarios of identification. And they not only relate to the present, but may also act upon the past by virtue of their retrospective effects in the confluence of narrator and witness.

Savage worlds

Author : Matthew Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526123428
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Savage worlds written by Matthew Fitzpatrick and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an eye to recovering the experiences of those in frontier zones of contact, Savage Worlds maps a wide range of different encounters between Germans and non-European indigenous peoples in the age of high imperialism. Examining outbreaks of radical violence as well as instances of mutual co-operation, it examines the differing goals and experiences of German explorers, settlers, travellers, merchants, and academics, and how the variety of projects they undertook shaped their relationship with the indigenous peoples they encountered. Examining the multifaceted nature of German interactions with indigenous populations, this volume offers historians and anthropologists clear evidence of the complexity of the colonial frontier and frontier zone encounters. It poses the question of how far Germans were able to overcome their initial belief that, in leaving Europe, they were entering ‘savage worlds’.

Making an Entrance

Author : Juliane Vogel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110754495
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Making an Entrance written by Juliane Vogel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the entrance of a character on the tragic stage affect their visibility and presence? Beginning with the court culture of the seventeenth century and ending with Nietzsche’s Dionysian theater, this monograph explores specific modes of entering the stage and the conditions that make them successful—or cause them to fail. The study argues that tragic entrances ultimately always remain incomplete; that the step figures take into visibility invariably remains precarious. Through close readings of texts by Racine, Goethe, and Kleist, among others, it shows that entrances promise both triumph and tragic exposure; though they appear to be expressions of sovereignty, they are always simultaneously threatened by failure or annihilation. With this analysis, the book thus opens up possibilities for a new theory of dramatic form, one that begins not with the plot itself but with the stage entrance that structures how characters appear and thus determines how the plot advances. By reflecting on acts of entering, this book addresses not only scholars of literature, theater, media, and art but anyone concerned with what it means to appear and be present.

Revisiting Austria

Author : Gundolf Graml
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789204496
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Revisiting Austria written by Gundolf Graml and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the transformations and conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century, Austria’s emergence as an independent democracy heralded a new era of stability and prosperity for the nation. Among the new developments was mass tourism to the nation’s cities, spa towns, and wilderness areas, a phenomenon that would prove immensely influential on the development of a postwar identity. Revisiting Austria incorporates films, marketing materials, literature, and first-person accounts to explore the ways in which tourism has shaped both international and domestic perceptions of Austrian identity even as it has failed to confront the nation’s often violent and troubled history.

Film History for the Anthropocene

Author : Seth Peabody
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1640141618
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Film History for the Anthropocene written by Seth Peabody and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From its beginnings, some of German film's most prominent genres and directors have focused on the natural world and its transformations by humans. Heimat films, "city symphonies," mountain films, and rubble films all blend the boundary between landscape documentary and fiction film. Yet German film studies has been slow to adopt an environmental focus, concentrating (understandably) on its subject matter's political implications. This book reveals critical connections between German film, sociopolitical context, and environment, showing it to have been a creative catalyst for the social and ecological transformation of the Anthropocene. The book first considers the interplay between German film and environmental history in films and discourses of Heimat. Weimar-era films such as E. A. Dupont's Die Geierwally (1921), Carl Ludwig Achaz-Duisberg's Sprengbagger 1010 (1929), and Phil Jèutzi's Hunger in Waldenburg (1929) document and create a forum for discussing environmental change. The book then looks at film as a visual archive of and catalyst for infrastructure development, focusing on Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927), the mountain films of Arnold Fanck, and the Berlin films Stadt der Millionen (Adolf Trotz, 1925), Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grossstadt (Walter Ruttmann, 1927), and Menschen am Sonntag (1930). Nazi-era and postwar films are also examined. By exploring German film history alongside environmental history and theory, this book provides a case study of the power of film within processes of environmental transformation"--

Gestural Imaginaries

Author : Lucia Ruprecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190659378
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Gestural Imaginaries written by Lucia Ruprecht and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gestural Imaginaries: Dance and Cultural Theory in the Early Twentieth Century offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy. Taking further Cornelius Castoriadis's concept of the social imaginary, it explores this imaginary's embodied forms. Close readings of dances, photographs, and literary texts are juxtaposed with discussions of gestural theory by thinkers including Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, and Aby Warburg. Choreographic gesture is defined as a force of intermittency that creates a new theoretical status of dance. Author Lucia Ruprecht shows how this also bears on contemporary theory. She shifts emphasis from Giorgio Agamben's preoccupation with gestural mediality to Jacques Ranci re's multiplicity of proliferating, singular gestures, arguing for their ethical and political relevance. Mobilizing dance history and movement analysis, Ruprecht highlights the critical impact of works by choreographers such as Vaslav Nijinsky, Jo Mihaly, and Alexander and Clotilde Sakharoff. She also offers choreographic readings of Franz Kafka and Alfred D blin. Gestural Imaginaries proposes that modernist dance conducts a gestural revolution which enacts but also exceeds the insights of past and present cultural theory. It makes a case for archive-based, cross-medial, and critically informed dance studies, transnational German studies, and the theoretical potential of performance itself.

Mutant Neoliberalism

Author : William Callison
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823285731
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Mutant Neoliberalism written by William Callison and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of neoliberalism’s death are serially overstated. Following the financial crisis of 2008, neoliberalism was proclaimed a “zombie,” a disgraced ideology that staggered on like an undead monster. After the political ruptures of 2016, commentators were quick to announce “the end” of neoliberalism yet again, pointing to both the global rise of far-right forces and the reinvigoration of democratic socialist politics. But do new political forces sound neoliberalism’s death knell or will they instead catalyze new mutations in its dynamic development? Mutant Neoliberalism brings together leading scholars of neoliberalism—political theorists, historians, philosophers, anthropologists and sociologists—to rethink transformations in market rule and their relation to ongoing political ruptures. The chapters show how years of neoliberal governance, policy, and depoliticization created the conditions for thriving reactionary forces, while also reflecting on whether recent trends will challenge, reconfigure, or extend neoliberalism’s reach. The contributors reconsider neoliberalism’s relationship with its assumed adversaries and map mutations in financialized capitalism and governance across time and space—from Europe and the United States to China and India. Taken together, the volume recasts the stakes of contemporary debate and reorients critique and resistance within a rapidly changing landscape. Contributors: Étienne Balibar, Sören Brandes, Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Julia Elyachar, Michel Feher, Megan Moodie, Christopher Newfield, Dieter Plehwe, Lisa Rofel, Leslie Salzinger, Quinn Slobodian

Epochenbrüche im 20. Jahrhundert

Author : Stefan Karner
Publisher : Böhlau Verlag Wien
ISBN 13 : 3205205049
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Epochenbrüche im 20. Jahrhundert written by Stefan Karner and published by Böhlau Verlag Wien. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1917/18, 1945 und 1989/91 waren ohne Zweifel die wesentlichen Zäsuren des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges und die russische Revolution, der Zusammenbruch von vier großen Imperien, die neue europäische Landkarte der Zwischenkriegsjahre, das Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges, die Etablierung einer bipolaren Welt im anschließenden "Kalten Krieg", die Teilung Europas und schließlich die Überwindung dieser Teilung 1989, der Zusammenbruch des sowjetischen Blocks und schließlich der Sowjetunion selbst. 17 Autoren zeichnen ein detailreiches, faszinierendes Bild dieser entscheidenden Jahre des Jahrhunderts und decken dabei neben den Brüchen in Politik, Wirtschaft, Militär, Gesellschaft und Wissenschaft auch jene Kontinuitäten auf, die bis heute wirken.

The Soviet Century

Author : Karl Schlögel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691237298
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Soviet Century written by Karl Schlögel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world’s leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique lost civilization. A museum of—and travel guide to—the Soviet past, The Soviet Century explores in evocative detail both the largest and smallest aspects of life in the USSR, from the Gulag, the planned economy, the railway system, and the steel city of Magnitogorsk to cookbooks, military medals, prison camp tattoos, and the ubiquitous perfume Red Moscow. The book examines iconic aspects of Soviet life, including long queues outside shops, cramped communal apartments, parades, and the Lenin mausoleum, as well as less famous but important parts of the USSR, including the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, the voice of Radio Moscow, graffiti, and even the typical toilet, which became a pervasive social and cultural topic. Throughout, the book shows how Soviet life simultaneously combined utopian fantasies, humdrum routine, and a pervasive terror symbolized by the Lubyanka, then as now the headquarters of the secret police. Drawing on Schlögel’s decades of travel in the Soviet and post-Soviet world, and featuring more than eighty illustrations, The Soviet Century is vivid, immediate, and grounded in firsthand encounters with the places and objects it describes. The result is an unforgettable account of the Soviet Century.

Evidence in Action between Science and Society

Author : Sarah Ehlers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100061476X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Evidence in Action between Science and Society written by Sarah Ehlers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge. The tensions between competing paradigms, different bodies of knowledge and the relative hierarchies between them are a crucial element of the historical and contemporary dynamics of scientific knowledge production. The negotiation of evidence is at the heart of this process. Starting from the premise that evidence constitutes a central, but also essentially contested concept in contemporary knowledge-based societies, this volume focuses on how evidence is generated and applied in practice—in other words, on “evidence in action.” The contributions analyze and compare different evidence practices within the field of science and technology, how they interlink with different forms of power, their interaction with and impact on the legal and political domain, and their relationship to other, more heterodox forms of evidence that challenge traditional notions of evidence. In doing so, this volume provides much-needed context and historical background to contemporary debates on the so-called “post-truth” society. Evidence in Action is the perfect resource for all those interested in the relationship between science, technology, and the role of knowledge in society. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

RODCENKO FOTOGRAFIEN (PHOTOGRAPHIEN).

Author : Hubertus Gassner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book RODCENKO FOTOGRAFIEN (PHOTOGRAPHIEN). written by Hubertus Gassner and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overzicht van het werk van de Russische fotograaf (1891-1956)

Bildung - Selbst(bild) – Geschlechterbilder

Author : Kerstin Bueschges
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643130597
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Bildung - Selbst(bild) – Geschlechterbilder written by Kerstin Bueschges and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der hier vorliegende Sammelband spiegelt die breite disziplinäre Aufstellung des Graduiertenkollegs "Gender und Bildung" der Universität Hildesheim wider. So finden sich hier Aufsätze aus der Erziehungs-, Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaft neben Beiträgen aus den deutschen und englischen Literaturwissenschaften und den Gender Studies ebenso wie Aufsätze aus der Chemiedidaktik, dem Bereich der Nachhaltigkeit und der Ethnologie. Dieses vermeintliche "Nebeneinander" unterschiedlichster disziplinärer Auseinandersetzungen mit "Gender" und "Bildung" entpuppt sich als besondere Möglichkeit interdisziplinären Lesens.

Evelyn Hofer

Author : Evelyn Hofer
Publisher : Steidl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Evelyn Hofer written by Evelyn Hofer and published by Steidl. This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn Hofer has photographed famous contemporaries and ordinary people in the Basque region, and recently, this passionate portrait photographer has turned married couples and people on the street into her subjects. But Hofer can also wait patiently for hours until her frame contains no people at all. Then she adds the pure beauty of the countryside or a venerable old building to a stark and timeless composition. Throughout her long photographic career, Hofer has sought both motion and stillness and balanced and revealed these qualities through the most diverse moments. This extensive monograph on the varied facets of her life's work shows her warm-hearted and incorruptible look at people and their surroundings. Containing photographs from Florence, London, Spain, New York, Washington, Dublin and Paris, along with a wealth of portraits, landscapes and architectural photography, this book concludes with Hofer's most recently completed work, a series of picturesque still lifes.