Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin - War Primer 2 mining

Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin - War Primer 2 miningMACK 2018 Originally released in 2011 as a limited edition hardback, this paperback edition is a facsimile of the book which earned Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin the 2013 Deutsche Brse Photography Prize. War Primer 2 appropriates the first English language version of Bertolt Brechts remarkable 1955 Kriegsfibel in which Brecht combined press photographs from the World Wars with four line poems. Compiled intermittently over three decades, Brechts

make new connections

Christiane Kues was in Los Angeles in 2013/14 with a travel grant from Hessian Cultural Foundation

Vince Leo and Wolfgang Ullrich contribute texts

Paperback with multiple gate-folds and dust-jacket

He has a keen sense of this

Meanwhile the German traditions are slowly dying

Collection Regard 2011

reflecting the explosion of pure youth culture and fierce desire for individuality he experienced in the decade between 1980-1990

He continued the series through his father’s death in 1987

23 x 27 cm

But in day to day life hardly anybody speaks German any more

sick and imprisoned