Description

Joachim Brohm – Areal
Publisher: Steidl, 2003
Hardcover, 264 pages
Size: 26.6×20.4cm
New in seal

For roughly a decade, from 1992 to 2002, Joachim Brohm undertook a photographic project of long-term urban observation. At the same location on the outskirts of a German city, he took hundreds of pictures of redevelopment, recording the place as it was transformed from a 1950s commercial/industrial district into a gentrified post-industrial services center and living area. In a meditative response to these changes, Brohm cartographically captured the premises, their buildings and materials, and chronologically documented the developments during this period. Brohm’s pictorial idiom–characterized by a dissolved center, with layering and composition referencing the continuation of space beyond the frame’s limits–is both documentary and deconstructive. His photographs simultaneously depict and dissolve the outside world, lending the transitory, hovering state of reality and meaning a powerful pictorial form.