Schlagwort: Trauma
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Arwed Messmer : RAF – No Evidence / Kein Beweis
Seine Erzählung spannt den Bogen von den Anfängen der Bewegung hin zur multiplen Gewaltentladung 1977, der Entführung und Ermordung von Hanns-Martin Schleyer und dem Suizid von Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin und Jan-Carl Raspe in der JVA Stammheim. Somit hat Messmers Arbeit auch eine bildethische Dimension: welche Aufnahmen darf man zeigen, wie kann man sie zeigen,…
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Rhiannon Adam : Big Fence
… Pitcairn epitomises Utopia. A land of milk and honey under the Pacific skies – always just out of reach, but vivid in the mind’s eye. In 2004, this façade slipped, when a series of child sexual abuse allegations emerged. The British investigation, Operation Unique, uncovered decades of abuse. Abuse that had been festering in…
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Robin Hammond : Condemned. Mental Health in African Countries in Crisis
Hammond captures both the deplorable conditions that the mentally ill endure and the overwhelming challenge that mental health workers face with limited resources and inadequate or failed systems health care systems in which the mentally ill have the lowest priority.
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Simone Engelen : 27 Drafts
„In 2006, during a high school exchange year in the U.S., I was sexually abused by two individuals. In the years that followed, I tried to block out all memories about this experience, which led me to develop coping mechanisms such as addiction and control issues; and deeply influenced how I interact with others and…
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Kent Klich, Beth R : Picture Imperfect
„Picture Imperfect presents a life-sized portrait of Beth R, her immense fear of pain, and the cry for a love that her parents never had the means to give. The book is a product of more than 20 years of friendship and collaboration between Beth and the photographer Kent Klich.“
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Natalie Malisse : La grande maison
„La parole des enfants est comme un souffle qui murmure la violence tapie là, derriére les murs. Il faut tendre l’oreille.“
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Saraí Ojeda : Where your gaze can’t reach me
Between text and image, this photobook illustrates the complex history of three generations of women in the author’s life. The mother’s house, full of dolls and peculiar objects, becomes a space of fantasy and terror, serving as a metaphor of a complex and dramatic familial story that Ojeda approaches by oscillating between fiction and reality.
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David Lundmark : X60 – X84
After a close relative unexpectedly took his life, photographer David Lundmark decided to seek out others who had been affected by suicide – privately or through their professional roles. Partly because he wanted to process his own grief and try to understand what had happened, but also to break the media silence on suicide.
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Tsai Ting Bang : Born from the Same Root
Is it the illnesses that lead to the decay of life, or is it the decay of life that causes the illnesses? What are the forces and reasons behind pushing us, as brothers, into entirely different adult worlds? What is the emotional bond between brothers? Through photographing Hsien, I aim to try and understand these…
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Jill Bennett : Empathic Vision. Affect, Trauma and Contemporary Art
This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on what makes visual language unique, arguing that the „affective“ quality of art contributes to a new understanding of the experience of trauma and loss.
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Ahndraya Parlato : Who is Changed and Who is Dead
In Who is Changed and Who is Dead, Ahndraya Parlato uses the life-changing events of her mother’s suicide and the birth of her children as the genesis for an expansive project exploring the contradictory and complex conditions of motherhood.
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Ulrich Baer : Spectral Evidence. The Photography of Trauma
In this remarkable contribution to photographic criticism and psychoanalytic literature, Ulrich Baer traces the hitherto overlooked connection between the experience of trauma and the photographic image.