Kai Wiedenhofer: Confrontier (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783869305509)

In 1989 Kai Wiedenh fer photographed the fall of the Berlin Wall in his hometown. He was deeply moved by this experience of history unfolding, and at the time, like many, he believed this event would mark the end of walls being employed as political tools and dismissed them as anachronistic instruments of division. Over 20 years later, history has proved us wrong; indeed, walls have enjoyed a barbaric renaissance. Border barriers have been erected in the US, Europe and the Middle East in the aftermath of political, economic, religious and ethnic conflicts. Wiedenh fer has documented walls in Belfast, Ceuta and Melilla, Baghdad, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the American- Mexican border, Cyprus, Korea as well as the remains of the Iron Curtain. Confrontier presents Wiedenh fer's project and expresses his conviction that walls are not solutions to today's political and economic problems, but proof of human weakness, error and our failure to communicate with one another.

Author: Kai Wiedenhöfer
ISBN-10: 3869305509
ISBN-13: 9783869305509
Publisher: Steidl
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2013
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.89lbs
Size: 12.90h x 9.19w x 0.81d