Arwed Messmer

RAF. No Evidence / Kein Beweis

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A new perspective on a traumatic chapter in German history

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Numerous accounts of the RAF and the German Autumn in 1977 have been chronicled over the past forty years, from journalistic, historical, literary, cinematic, and artistic perspectives. Arwed Messmer begins with the various photographs made by police photographers at the time-pictures of demonstrators, crime scene images, and mug shots. He poses the question of how this past search for criminological evidence can be employed artistically. His narrative strikes an arc from the beginnings of the movement to the multiple eruptions of violence in 1977, the abduction and murder of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, and the suicides of Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe in Stammheim Prison. Messmer’s work therefore also has an ethical dimension: which photographs can be shown, how can they be shown, and why do we want to see them? This investigation touches a key point in the debate on images that are on the one hand historical documents, and on the other hand embodiments of their own aesthetic with powerful potential for an empathetic examination of history.

Additional information

Weight 978 g
Dimensions 23.9 x 33.2 cm
Publisher name Hatje Cantz Verlag
Publication date 12 November 2017
Number of pages 136
Format Paperback / softback
Contributors Edited by Arwed Messmer, Florian Ebner, and Uta Grundman
Dimensions 23.9 x 33.2 cm
Weight 978 g

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