Coverbild Frauen auf Bäumen
Frauen auf Bäumen
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Texts by: Jochen Raiß
Edited by: Jochen Raiß
Graphic Design: Gabriele Sabolewski
German, English
June 2016, 112 Pages, 0 Ills., 52 Photos
hardcover
130mm x 180mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-4167-5
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| Unearthed: Finds from private photo albums
“You know, I don’t know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it?” writes Fyodor Dostoyevsky in The Idiot. Perhaps this sentence could also be used to explain the theme of women in trees that was so popular between the twenties and fifties and has, until now, never before been assembled in a book. The enthusiastic collector, Jochen Raiß, discovered this subject during his flea market excursions. He pulled black-and-white photographs out of boxes in which he found numerous snapshots of other’s lives wildly thrown together. They feature young women at dizzying heights who, at times, smile into the camera as if they were in love. The publication assembles the finds from this charming genre that Raiß compiled over a period of twenty-five years. Whether cheerfully dangling their legs, casually nestling in the forks of branches, or athletically climbing to the treetop—each picture has its very own story to discover. A book full of nostalgia. (Edition with cover in English ISBN 978-3-7757-4218-4)
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