Dirk Reinartz - Besonderes Kennzeichen: Deutsch - 1989

GREAT FIRST BOOK by the BRILLIANT, STILL HIGHLY UNDERRATED German photographer
Dirk Reinartz (1947-2004).

New, mint, unread; originally shrink-wrapped in publisher`s plastic foil.
COLLECTOR'S COPY.

Wonderful photobook by the pupil of Otto Steinert.

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At "Landesmuseum Bonn" there is at the moment a big show of Dirk Reinartz's impressive work:
"From 16 May 2024, the LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn will be showing the first major retrospective of the important photojournalist and author Dirk Reinartz (1947-2004). Twenty years after his untimely death, the focus will be on his extensive oeuvre, which characterises him as an outstanding photographer of the late Federal Republic and reunified Germany. Whether in his early foreign reportages, for example for Stern magazine in Japan, or in his free image series from the German provinces, Reinartz succeeded in capturing socio-political developments, cultural upheavals and concrete life situations of people in subtle photographic narratives using a precise and trenchant visual language.The central theme in Reinartzʼ work is his preoccupation with Germany and the Germans. Throughout his life, he was in search of motifs in which a German identity could be recognised, with all its contradictions and historical anchoring: from small-town life using the example of Buxtehude to the great social reorientation after 1989. In publications such as "Kein schöner Land" (1989) or "Bismarck.
Vom Verrat der Denkmäler" (1991), Reinartz shed light on the German culture of remembrance and the persistence of the past in the present. In "totenstill" (1994), an examination of the architectural remains of National Socialist concentration camps, he questioned the representability of horror.Reinartzʼ works have appeared in many major magazines such as Der Spiegel, in the magazines of Süddeutsche Zeitung and ZEIT as well as in the art magazine art. The exhibition visualises Dirk Reinartzʼs work along the lines of the areas of tension that have preoccupied him throughout his life, such as power and powerlessness, proximity and distance, history and the present. C. Gundlach Foundation Hamburg .
The curators of the exhibition are: Dr Jens Bove, Director of the Deutsche Fotothek, Dresden, Dr Adelheid Komenda, Scientific Officer for Photography, LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, Sebastian Lux, Director of the F.C. Gundlach Foundation, Hamburg, Dr Agnes Matthias, Curator of the Archive of Photographers, Deutsche Fotothek, Dresden, Franziska Mecklenburg, Curator of the F.C. Gundlach Foundation, Hamburg, Prof. Dr Thorsten Valk, Director of the LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn."
(Landesmuseum Bonn)

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Steidl, Göttingen. 2008. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 210 x 265 mm. 160 pages. 100 duotone plates. Photos: Dirk Reinartz. Text in German.

Great book by underrated German photographer Dirk Reinartz - in perfect condition.

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Dirk Reinartz was born in Aachen in 1947. He studied photography under Otto Steinert at the Folkwangschule in Essen. From 1971 to 1977, he was a photo reporter for Stern magazine. His numerous travels took him to many countries on all continents. In 1977 he joined the VISUM photography group, from which he left in 1982 to work completely independently from then on. Reinartz's reportages and reports appeared in many magazines, including "Life", "Fortune", "Der Spiegel", "SZ-Magazin" and especially "Zeit-Magazin" and "Art". Since 1985, he has also published his work in book form. Dirk Reinartz's photographs have been shown in numerous exhibitions, his "Totenstill" project in 25 locations worldwide, including Berlin, New York, Warsaw and Santiago de Chile. Dirk Reinartz has been Professor of Photography at the Muthesius University in Kiel since 1998. He lived in Buxtehude near Hamburg. Dirk Reinartz died on 27 March 2004 while travelling in Berlin.