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Kai Wiedenhöfer

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Kai Wiedenhöfer: Book of Destruction
STEIDL

Clth, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 7/20/2011 | In stock
$75.00



Kai Wiedenhofer: Confrontier
STEIDL

Clth, 9.75 x 13 in. / 184 pgs / 128 color. | 10/31/2013 | In stock
$60.00



Kai Wiedenhöfer: WALL and PEACE
Kai Wiedenhöfer: WALL and PEACE
STEIDL

Clth, 15 x 12 in. / 208 pgs / 67 color / 24 bw. | 1/21/2025 | Awaiting stock
$95.00



Kai Wiedenhöfer: WALL and PEACEKai Wiedenhöfer: WALL and PEACE

Published by Steidl.
Text by Kai Wiedenhöfer.

Good fences make good neighbors, people say, but in reality they usually make real enemies. Peace starts where walls fall and not where they are erected; the Berlin Wall is the best proof of that, says German photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer (born 1966), who witnessed its fall firsthand. Between 2003 and 2018 Wiedenhöfer made ten journeys to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories to photograph fences, walls and checkpoints of the separation barrier (which the Israeli government is still building).

From his experiences documenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over three decades, Wiedenhöfer saw how the barrier only worsens problems in the Holy Land: the wall itself cements the assumed righteousness of the Israelis, and is an act of aggression against the Palestinians who are caged in and only become more frustrated. The wall is a paradox: it enhances the violence it is supposed to curb, necessitating more policing and fortification.



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Clth, 15 x 12 in. / 208 pgs / 67 color / 24 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 131   

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Kai Wiedenhofer: ConfrontierKai Wiedenhofer: Confrontier

Published by Steidl.
Contributions by Stefanie Rosenkranz.

In 1989 Kai Wiedenhöfer photographed the fall of the Berlin Wall in his hometown. He was deeply moved by this experience of history unfolding, and at the time, like many, he believed this event would mark the end of walls being employed as political tools and dismissed them as anachronistic instruments of division. Over 20 years later, history has proved us wrong; indeed, walls have enjoyed a barbaric renaissance. Border barriers have been erected in the US, Europe and the Middle East in the aftermath of political, economic, religious and ethnic conflicts. Wiedenhöfer has documented walls in Belfast, Ceuta and Melilla, Baghdad, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the American- Mexican border, Cyprus, Korea as well as the remains of the Iron Curtain. Confrontier presents Wiedenhöfer's project and expresses his conviction that walls are not solutions to today's political and economic problems, but proof of human weakness, error and our failure to communicate with one another.

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Clth, 9.75 x 13 in. / 184 pgs / 128 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2014

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Kai Wiedenhöfer: Book of DestructionKai Wiedenhöfer: Book of Destruction

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For more than 20 years Kai Wiedenhöfer has been taking photographs in the Middle East, a place where many journalists and photographers have covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet Wiedenhöfer is unique in that he concentrates exclusively on Gaza, and often remains there to take photos long after the media has moved onto more 'pressing' news stories. Even in 2009 after the offensive of the Israeli army, Wiedenhöfer remained in Gaza. During this time he took disturbingly quiet, almost repetitive pictures of the bleak aftermath of the war that form The Book of Destruction. Wiedenhöfer´s images of crumbling ruins and maimed civilians are a powerful landscape of disquiet and destruction.

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Clth, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: FALL 2014

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