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    The land in between : photographs from 1980 to 2012 / Ursula Schulz-Dornburg ; edited by Martin Engler.

    • Title:The land in between : photographs from 1980 to 2012 / Ursula Schulz-Dornburg ; edited by Martin Engler.
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    • Author/Creator:Schulz-Dornburg, Ursula, photographer.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Engler, Martin, editor.
      Elliott, Fiona, 1951- translator.
      Fischer, Christiane (Translator)
      Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main, host institution.
    • Published/Created:London : MACK, [2018]
      ©2018.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Schulz-Dornburg, Ursula--Exhibitions.
      Landscape photography--Caucasus--Exhibitions.
      Landscape photography--Arabian Peninsula--Exhibitions.
      Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions.
    • Genre/Form:Exhibition catalogs.
    • Description:300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm + 1 sheet (50 x 40 cm, folded to 25 x 20 cm)
    • 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.
    • 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 from German by Fiona Elliot, Christiane Fischer.
    • ISBN:9781912339105 (English)
      1912339102 (English)
      1912339153 (German)
      9781912339150 (German)
    • Contents:Foreword / Philipp Demandt
      The silence of the pictures : Ursula Schulz-Dornburg's photographic palimpsests / Martin Engler ; Iris Hasler
      Transit sites 1997-2011
      From Medina to Jordan border, 2002/3
      Vanished landscapes, Iraq, Marsh Arabs, 1980
      Vanished landscapes, Iraq, Mesopotamia, 1980
      Vanished landscapes, Palmyra, Syria, 2005/2010
      The land in-between / Shoair Mavlian
      15 kilometers along the Georgian-Azerbaijanian border, 1998/99
      Ararat, 2004-2006
      Ploshchad Vosstaniya
      Uprising Square, 2000
      Kronstadt, 2002
      Opytnoe Pole and Chagan, 2012
      Memoryscapes, St Petersburg, 2000
      Sonnenstand, 1991-92
      In touch with humanity
      Travel, time, space and traces / Martin Zimmerman.
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