WIRTSCHAFTSWUNDER
書籍簡介
作者：JOSREF HEINRICH DARCHINGER
ISBN：978-3-8365-0019-7
出版日期：2008年
出版者：TASCHEN
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本書介紹
二戰後，歐洲經濟陷入危機，
透過馬歇爾計畫的援助，這樣的情形也因此而改善。
WIRTSCHAFTSWUNDER，意思指的是在二次大戰後，德國創造的經濟奇蹟。
JOESF HEINRICH DARCHINGER參與了這樣的一個改變，並將其拍攝下來，
德國逐漸邁向繁榮，攝影集裡收錄的人們與環境也看得出其中的活力。
對於愛好異國文化以及攝影的朋友可以看看這麼一本記錄了國家、城市改變的攝影書哦！
本書內容
Miraculous recovery
Picking up the pieces in postwar Germany
"A critic once said that Darchinger could think with his eyes. The photographs in the book Wirtschaftswunder prove that he can also feel and speak with them."
- SPIEGEL.DE, Hamburg
It was no more than eight years after the surrender of the Nazi government when Josef Heinrich Darchinger set out on his photographic journey through the West of a divided Germany. The bombs of World War II had reduced the country's major cities to deserts of rubble. Yet his pictures show scarcely any signs of the downfall of a civilization. Not that the photographer was manipulating the evidence: he simply recorded what he saw. At the time, a New York travel agency was advertising the last opportunity to go and visit the remaining bomb sites. Darchinger's pictures, in color and black-and-white, show a country in a fever of reconstruction. The economic boom was so incredible that the whole world spoke of an "economic miracle." The people who achieved it, in contrast, look down-to-earth, unassuming, conscientious, and diligent. And increasingly, they look like strangers in the world they have created.
The photographs portray a country caught between the opposite poles of technological modernism and cultural restoration, between affluence and penury, between German Gemütlichkeit and the constant threat of the Cold War. They show the winners and losers of the "economic miracle," people from all social classes, at home, at work, in their very limited free time and as consumers. But they also show a country that looks, in retrospect, like a film from the middle of the last century. Of his color photographs, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote, "they are exceptional contemporary documents indicating how swiftly the grayness of everyday life became infused
with color again."
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