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Issue 265 : Metaxy : Between Destruction and Reconstruction

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Before & After: The Architecture of Disaster

Exponat
Eyal Weizman, Ines Weizman

Before-and-after images—two photographs of the same place, taken at different moments and presented in pairs—narrate historical change as a sequence of catastrophes: buildings stand intact, then lie in ruins; forests grow and disappear; rivers dry up; glaciers melt.

In the seventh edition of his book Zerstörung und Wiederaufbau von Dresden (Destruction and Reconstruction of Dresden), first published in 1955, Max Seydewitz juxtaposes Richard Peter’s photographs of the destroyed city with new images from the same locations in order to emphasize the achievements of socialist reconstruction. / Aus | From: Max Seydewitz: Die unbesiegbare Stadt: Zerstörung und Wiederaufbau von Dresden, Leipzig 1982

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