Zerheilt

Name: Zerheilt
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SKU: 9783775751032
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In Zerheilt, Frédéric Brenner presents a photographic essay capturing the complex tapestry of Jewish life in Berlin. Over three years, he documents a diverse cast of individuals—from newcomers to long-time residents, converts to immigrants—each sharing their unique story within a city marked by paradox and dissonance. Through evocative images, the work explores themes of displacement, estrangement, and redemption, offering a multifaceted reflection on contemporary human experience beyond just Berlin's or Jewish narratives.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in photographic art, Jewish culture, contemporary social issues, and those drawn to introspective explorations of identity and community.

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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, Zerheilt, 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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775751032

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 September 2021

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 142 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Oren Myers
Text by Frédéric Brenner
Designed by Julia Wagner
Text by Elad Lapidot
Designed by grafikanstalt

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 285.0mm

Height: 330.0mm

Weight: 1610g

Pages: 168

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality

About the Author

Frederic Brenner, born in Paris in 1959, is known for exploring questions of longing, belonging and exclusion. His major opus, Diaspora, Homelands in Exile, is the result of a 25-year search in over 40 countries to create a visual record of the Jewish people at the end of the 20th century. He has published seven books, his most recent book is An Archeology of Fear and Desire (2014). He lives in Berlin and Jerusalem.