Product Details
Hardback
176 pages
Steidl/DAAD
Published 2002
Publisher's Description:
"Rosenberg's poetic articulation of image is equal to Benjamin's poetic linguistics; both are steeped in languid, captured moments in the timeless landscape of memory."--NYArts Magazine
After leaving Germany in 1932, Walter Benjamin wrote Berliner Kindheit Um Neunzehnhundert, a collection of 42 texts that functions as a childhood memoir, distilling the poignancy of a lost childhood from vividly remembered places, things and experiences. Arriving in Berlin with her husband and young daughter in 1991, Aura Rosenberg was introduced to Benjamin's memoir, and found herself moving, uncannily, through the very spaces Benjamin once had. Her goal became to produce photos to match each entry in Bejamin's book. This volume of 160 pictures, juxtaposed with excerpts from Benjamin and accounts of her own investigation, is the result of her quest. What emerges is a multilayered allegory that offers a look back to the origins of modernity through the lens of contemporary Berlin. |
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