Anna Püschel – Encyclopedia of the Uncertain

Arts & Photography

Anna Püschel

Individual Artists

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Angeniet Berkers: Lebensborn — Birth Politics in the Third Reich

EDITED

Sense Of Smell

VARIOUS

Miyuki Okuyama - Dear Japanese

Miyuki Okuyama

Photography & Video

'Aeronautics in the Backyard' is a catching, fairytale-like photo series about the dream of flying, freedom, and creativity. In China, in the most unexpected of places, farmers rise up to build their own aircraft from recycling scrap metal. Some of these aeronauts have worked for decades but never achieved to get airborne. Xu is driven by questions of why, of all people, Chinese farmers have the guts and skills to become aeronauts, even though they lack both education and resources. Their stories, pictures, original sketches, and technical documents are brought together in the book, unveiling the hidden world of Chinese aeronautics in full detail for the first time.

Xiaoxiao Xu - Aeronautics In The Backyard

Xiaoxiao Xu

No life is possible in the ""Exclusion Zone of Chernobyl"". It is a restricted area and the ground is heavily contaminated, it is not safe out there. Yet, this area is inhabited permanently by ca. 140 Samosely or Self settlers and over 2500 people are working on a daily basis in- and around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP). Together with Sophieke Thurmer (text) Esther Hessing made a book on these inhabitants. In this book they take you along on a journey through the Zone and tell the stories of these remarkable people.

Bound To The Ground

Esther Hessing, Sophieke Thurmer

Panama's place in the collective imagination is frequently limited to its famous canal, exotic scenery and recent political history. Mexican photographer Arturo Soto (born 1981), however, is not interested in reproducing clich s; his work looks for unexpected traces of everyday sociopolitical life in urban spaces. With this new volume, the photographer offers a subjective vision of Panama's urban landscape, interrogating how personal experience influences the ways one negotiates, and ultimately represents, a landscape. As a consequence, the vibrant country found in travel brochures to sell prepackaged experiences is purposefully absent. Soto trains his camera on Panama's more banal spaces, not the colorful tropical paradises of the tourist bureau. Capturing views of Panama's socially stratified cities and the disparate social values at play there, Soto contradicts simple visions of progress and economic growth with a much more nuanced portrait of a place and its people.

Arturo Soto: In the Heat

Coleman, Kevin

Air Koryo is the state-owned national airline of North Korea. International sanctions and environmental restrictions have reduced the airlines international destinations with only China and Vladivostok remaining. The old Antonovs, Ilyushins and Tupolevs rarely fly abroad and therefore seem superfluous. Nevertheless these aircraft and their crews are kept ready for operation. Arthur Mebius monitors the routine operations by the crew which appears as a rehearsed play of maintenance, controls, and procedures. A beautiful ground control dance of which an image of dedication and pride arises.

Arthur Mebius - Dear Sky / North Korean Aviation

Arthur Mebius

As the son of an Italian father and an American mother, Martino Marangoni (born 1950) regularly spent time in New York, where, impressed by the city's skyscrapers, he first learned to use a camera. From 1972 to 1975 he studied photography at Pratt Institute and became acquainted with the work of Robert Frank and Lee Friedlander, among others. His fascination with New York and his ties with friends and family brought him to the city almost every year: not only he was there when the Twin Towers were being built, but he was present when they were destroyed in 2001. Since that day he has returned to visit Ground Zero regularly, documenting the rebuilding of the area and the changing neighborhood. This new book collects images from his 60-year archive. Taken primarily in Lower Manhattan, and supplemented here with anecdotes, the photographs are an extraordinary testimony to this rapidly changing city and its street life.

Martino Marangoni: Rebuilding: My Days in New York 1959–2018

With this new publication, comprised of contemporary photographs as well as archival material, Austrian photographer Simon Brugner (born 1983) investigates a surprisingly common historical belief that the consumption of arsenic, a deadly poison, could be beneficial to one’s health. Many “poison eaters” could be found among the Austrian rural population in the 19th century; they ate white or yellow arsenic produced by roasting arsenic-containing minerals. Arsenic eaters were robust people, and usually of the lower class of society: wood cutters, charcoal burners, stablemen and foresters who ingested arsenic to be “strong and healthy.” In the first part of this volume, Brugner tries to link past and present, imagining a reality in which the obscure habit of arsenic eating is conceivable. The second part presents Brugner’s research into the practice based on medical papers from the 19th and early 20th centuries and on-location findings.

Simon Brugner: The Arsenic Eaters

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