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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Andreas Magdanz – Stammheim
| Editor | Andreas Magdanz, Ulrike Groos |
| Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
| Year | 2012 |
| Cover | stiffened paper covers |
| Language | German, English |
| ISBN | 978-3-7757-3457-8 |
| Pages | 228 |
| Weight | 1512 g |
| Illustrations | with 98 ills |
| More | |
| Contributors | Andreas Magdanz |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Stuttgart |
| Article ID | art-12489 |
In the seventies, the imprisonment of the leaders of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a group of left-wing militants, made Stuttgart Stammheim prison a household name even beyond Germany.
A high-security multipurpose building was erected there in 1975 specifically for the trial of the RAF members. The state prison is scheduled to be demolished, thus destroying the site that is inseparably bound to the events of 1977, when the RAF carried out a series of kidnappings and murders and leading figures of the group committed suicide in their prison cells. This was the starting point for the photographic art project Stuttgart Stammheim by Andreas Magdanz.
The artist uses large-format digital photography to create a comprehensive documentation of this historically charged site filled with RAF mythology. His decidedly matter-of-fact images paint a nuanced and realistic portrait of the facility and its condition in 2010/11.
