- Summary
- Following more than forty years of photographic storytelling of Jewish life around the world, Frédéric Brenner spent three years exploring Berlin -- a stage for a vast spectrum of expressions and performances of Judaism. In his new photographic essay he portrays individuals -- newcomers, old timers, converts, immigrants and others -- who have made Berlin their home or are just passing through. Via a series of fragmentary insights into this incubator of paradox and dissonance, he reflects on conflicting narratives of redemption and gives light to an ever so present absence. Like a shattered mirror, these images offer a polyphonic, sometimes bizarre and disturbing reflection of and on a topography of displacement and estrangement in contemporary human condition, far beyond the story of Berlin or of Jews.
- Other Title
- Works. Selections.
- Variant Title
- Zerheilt
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2021
©2021
- Locale
- Germany
Berlin
Allemagne
- Other Authors/Editors
- Brenner, Frédéric, 1959-
Myers, Oren, editor.
Jüdisches Museum Berlin (1999- ), host institution.
Joods Historisch Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands), host institution.
- Notes
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Exhibition: Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany (03.09. -13.06.2022) / Joods Historisch Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Fall 2022).
