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Arwed Messmer

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


           

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Arwed Messmer: Berlin, Fruchtstraße on March 27, 1952

SPECTOR BOOKS
Edited with text by Annett Gröschner, Fritz Tiedemann. Text by Arwed Messmer, Florian Ebner, Uwe W. Tiedemann.

A photographic portrait of a single boulevard in Berlin, taken before the buildings’ demolition

Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 142 pgs / 37 color / 31 bw. | 10/3/2023 | In stock
$50.00


Arwed Messmer: Clearing the Depths

SPECTOR BOOKS
Text by Falk Haberkorn, Maren Lübbke-Tidow, Arwed Messmer.

Newly sequenced archival images of German upheaval in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall

Hbk, 8.75 x 13 in. / 318 pgs / 60 color / 98 bw. | 7/9/2024 | In stock
$70.00


Arwed Messmer: RAF

HATJE CANTZ
Text by Florian Ebner, Uta Grundman.

Pbk, 9.75 x 13.5 in. / 136 pgs / 135 color. | 1/23/2018 | Out of stock
$65.00


Arwed Messmer: Cell

HATJE CANTZ

Hbk, 9.75 x 13.5 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color. | 2/28/2017 | Out of stock
$60.00


Arwed Messmer: Reenactment MfS

HATJE CANTZ

Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 148 color. | 5/26/2015 | Out of stock
$55.00


Arwed Messmer: The Other View

HATJE CANTZ
Edited by Annett Gröschner, Arwed Messmer. Text by Greg Bond, Olaf Briese, Florian Ebner, Matthias Flügge, Annett Gröschner, Arwed Messmer.

Hbk, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 752 pgs / 23 color / 529 duotone. | 1/31/2012 | Out of stock
$75.00


Arwed Messmer: Clearing the DepthsArwed Messmer: Clearing the Depths

The Dream of the Reich

Published by Spector Books.
Text by Falk Haberkorn, Maren Lübbke-Tidow, Arwed Messmer.

German photographer Arwed Messmer (born 1964) sequences previously unpublished pictures from his archive alongside re-edits of existing work documenting the upheavals in East Germany and Berlin after reunification in 1990. Problematic aspects of recent history are also exposed, highlighting the return of nationalism in contemporary Germany.



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Hardcover, 8.75 x 13 in. / 318 pgs / 60 color / 98 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2022 p. 188   

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Arwed Messmer: Berlin, Fruchtstraße on March 27, 1952Arwed Messmer: Berlin, Fruchtstraße on March 27, 1952

Published by Spector Books.
Edited with text by Annett Gröschner, Fritz Tiedemann. Text by Arwed Messmer, Florian Ebner, Uwe W. Tiedemann.

In 1952, East Berlin’s municipal authorities commissioned Fritz Tiedemann to photograph a section of Fruchtstraße, where the buildings were set for demolition in the following decades. In this volume, German photographer Arwed Messmer (born 1964) assembles 32 archival images into a panoramic portrait of a bygone place.



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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 142 pgs / 37 color / 31 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2023 p. 181   

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Arwed Messmer: RAFArwed Messmer: RAF

No Evidence

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Florian Ebner, Uta Grundman.

Numerous accounts of the ‘70s militant leftist Red Army Faction, or the Baader-Meinhof group, have been published over the past 40 years. Here, Arwed Messmer (born 1964) takes images made by police photographers at the time—pictures of demonstrators, crime-scene photographs and mug shots—to create a narrative arc from the beginnings of the movement in the early ‘70s to the eruptions of violence in 1977 (the infamous “German Autumn”), the abduction and murder of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the suicides of Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe in Stammheim Prison. Messmer’s work therefore also has an ethical dimension: which photographs should be shown, how might they be shown and why do we want to see them? This investigation touches a key point for contemporary debates about historical documents with an aesthetic dimension offering potential for an empathetic examination of history.



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Hatje Cantz

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Paperback, 9.75 x 13.5 in. / 136 pgs / 135 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 134   

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Arwed Messmer: CellArwed Messmer: Cell

Published by Hatje Cantz.

On February 27, 1975, Peter Lorenz, a Christian Democratic politician in West Berlin, was abducted by the Bewegung 2. Juni, or June 2 Movement. Today, if you search the event online, one image appears that is still embedded in collective visual memory, featuring Lorenz in his cell. However, a body of about 3,000 negatives has survived, hidden in an archive. They were produced during investigations by Berlin’s state security and also include the documentation of a meticulous reenactment by the police featuring the original materials used to build the basement space. Unlike the events that took place during Germany’s fall of terror in 1977, this abduction ended without bloodshed. Here, Arwed Messmer (born 1964) places the images in relationship to one another based on their material, size, detail and placement.

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 9.75 x 13.5 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 176   

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Arwed Messmer: Reenactment MfSArwed Messmer: Reenactment MfS

Published by Hatje Cantz.

In the archives of East Germany's Stasi secret police, there are countless photographs of failed escape attempts across the Berlin Wall. Here, German artist Arwed Messmer (born 1964) presents a complex collage of found, retouched and recontextualized visual records and Messmer's own photographs.

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 148 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 199   

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ISBN 9783775739115 FLAT40
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Arwed Messmer: The Other ViewArwed Messmer: The Other View

The Early Berlin Wall

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Annett Gröschner, Arwed Messmer. Text by Greg Bond, Olaf Briese, Florian Ebner, Matthias Flügge, Annett Gröschner, Arwed Messmer.

In 1965-66, soldiers from the East German border patrol photographed 40 kilometers of the east side of the Berlin Wall, producing more than 1,000 images. In The Other View, Arwed Messmer (born 1964) digitally reconstructs these photographs to produce 300 panoramas, to which author Annett Gröschner provides captions.

Please note that the book is bound with a special “open softcover” technique which allows the opened book to lie flat. To this purpose its end leaf has only been partially glued to the cover. This is no binding mistake, but a unique printing technique specially created for the book!

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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 752 pgs / 23 color / 529 duotone.

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Catalog: SPRING 2012 p. 170   

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