The land in between : photographs from 1980 to 2012 /

The land in between : photographs from 1980 to 2012 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Schulz-Dornburg, Ursula.
Imprint:	London : MACK, [2018] ©2018
Description:	300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm + 1 sheet (50 x 40 cm, folded to 25 x 20 cm)
Language:	English
Subject:	Schulz-Dornburg, Ursula -- Exhibitions. Schulz-Dornburg, Ursula. Landscape photography -- Caucasus -- Exhibitions. Landscape photography -- Arabian Peninsula -- Exhibitions. Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions. Landscape photography. Photography, Artistic. Arabian Peninsula. Caucasus. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11672570

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Other authors / contributors:	Engler, Martin, editor. Hasler, Iris, editor. Mavlian, Shoair. Zimmerman, Martin. Elliott, Fiona, 1951- translator. Fischer, Christiane, translator.
ISBN:	9781912339105 1912339102 1912339153 9781912339150
Notes:	"This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Ursula Schulz-Dornburg The Land In-between Photographs from 1980 to 2012, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 4 July - 16 September 2018". Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-295). Translated form German by Fiona Elliot, Christiane Fischer.
Summary:	Ursula Schulz-Dornburg's The Land in Between presents the complex bond between landscape and human civilization, exploring the construction of power though the built environment and its inevitable impermanence. By looking back at areas of past historical or political importance her images highlight how conflict, destruction, time and decay transforms the landscape. Many of Schulz-Dornburg's projects derive from a relatively confined geographic location, encompassing ancient civilizations alongside areas of modern strategic importance. Historically referred to as both a gateway and a cross roads, or the "land in-between", the area was often defined not by its content but by what lies on either side, between Europe and Asia, east and west, old and new. Over a thirty-year period, Schulz-Dornburg travelled to this region, visiting Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Documenting ruins of the now abandoned Ottoman railway project in Saudi Arabia, decaying Soviet era bus stops in Armenia, and temporary marsh dwellings in Mesopotamia. Most recently, in 2010, she travelled to Syria to photograph the ancient city of Palmyra. Her images now form some of the last visual documentation of the area prior to its recent destruction.

Table of Contents:

The silence of the pictures : Ursula Schulz-Dornburg's photographic palimpsests / Martin Engler ; Iris Hasler
The land in-between / Shoair Mavlian
In touch with humanity - Travel, time, space and traces / Martin Zimmerman.