Catalogue publication for the exhibition "Dirk Reinartz. Photographing what is"

The catalogue for the major Dirk Reinartz exhibition , "Dirk Reinartz: Photographing What Is ," created in cooperation with the German Photo Library Dresden and the F.C. Gundlach Foundation for the LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, has now been published by Steidl . The catalogue is edited by Jens Bove, Sebastian Lux, and Thorsten Valk. In addition to the editors' contributions, the catalogue also includes texts by Adelheid Komenda, Agnes Matthias, and Franziska Mecklenburg.

The 272-page catalogue with 262 illustrations is available for €40.00 directly from the Steidl publishing house, in bookstores, and at the ticket office of the Bonn State Museum. A sample copy is also available at the foundation.

About Dirk Reinartz

A highly precise visual language and cleverly composed series of works characterize his work. Dirk Reinartz He distinguished himself as an outstanding reportage photographer and visual writer. He developed subtle photographic narratives in familiar and geographically close surroundings: in his hometown of Buxtehude as well as in other German cities and regions. Equally incisive, however, are his depictions from around the world, created in Japan or Greenland, as commissioned work for Stern magazine or as independent, serial projects.

As a conceptually oriented photographer, he sought Dirk Reinartz looking for traces of the past in the present, for example in the publications Bismarck: The Betrayal of Monuments (1991) or Bismarck in America (2000). The central focus of his work on Germany and the Germans was the motifs in which a German identity reveals itself, with all its contradictions and historical roots. In deathly still (1994), in an examination of the structural remains of Nazi concentration camps, he questioned the representability of horror.