At first the pictures seem to be simply well-composed landscapes and architectural photographs, but there is something very odd about them. What is it that divides a single snow bank into two? Why does a massive steel bridge crown a mud puddle? Why does a guard tower pierce a suburban neighborhood? Rose shows how, when he began photographing in the early 1980s, walls divided crowded neighborhoods and verdant valleys alike, and contrasts those images with those showing how odd the space seems now, stripped of its concrete and barbed wire divisions. Some of the most haunting pictures are of the fields that were once the "death strip." Now their grass carries only slight indentations and even these could be, after all, only be a product of the viewer's imagination. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Genre: History, Architecture, Political Science
- Subgenre: General, Europe / Germany, Political Ideologies / Communism + Socialism, Landscape, Modern / 20th Century
- Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pr
- Pages: 144
- Language: English
- Format: hardcover
- Release Date: September 30, 2004
- Date Published: September 30, 2004
- Author: Brian Rose