Josef Heinrich Darchinger. Wirtschaftswunder

By Josef Heinrich Darchinger

Germany after the war 1952 - 1967 It was no more than eight years after the surrender of the Nazi government when Josef Heinrich Darchinger set out on his photographic journey through the West of a divided Germany. The bombs of World War II had reduced the country's major cities to deserts of rubble. Yet his pictures show scarcely any signs of the downfall of a civilization. Not that the photographer was manipulating the evidence: he simply recorded what he saw. At the time, a New York travel agency was advertising the last opportunity to go and visit the remaining bomb sites. Darchinger's pictures, in color and black-and-white, show a country in a fever of reconstruction. The economic boom was so incredible that the whole world spoke of an ""economic miracle."" The people who achieved it, in contrast, look down-to-earth, unassuming, conscientious, and diligent. And increasingly, they look like strangers in the world they have created.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3836500191
• ISBN13: 9783836500197
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 4.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 12.6" x 10.4"