Publisher/Steidl

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"Medebach Photographien / Photographs 1979-1983" is a collection of works by German female photographer Petra Wittmer (1955–). Wittmer, who studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts and was influenced by leading German photographers such as Michael Schmidt, is highly regarded as a documentary photographer who records the transformation of cities, rural areas, architecture, and local communities from a long-term perspective. This book compiles her early representative works, photographed between 1979 and 1983 in Medebach, a small town in western Germany where she was born and raised, and was published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne in 2007. With a quiet gaze, she captures ordinary scenes such as houses, farms, shops, roads, and interiors, meticulously documenting how post-war German rural society was gradually changing due to modernization. Without dramatically staging the subjects, Wittmer's technique of revealing people's lives and the memories of the land from the traces of time etched into architecture and living spaces became a consistent and important theme in her later works. As an early representative work in the lineage of German New Documentary, this book is important for understanding the origins of the artist. Steidl's high-quality binding further enhances the book's appeal.