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Lucinda Devlin German spa facilities are sites at which one can apparently be cured of chronic illnesses. Whether they date from the nineteenth century, the post-war period, or today, these places are fast becoming leisure-time oases. In a new series, Lucinda Devlin has photographed the deserted interiors of these bathhouses, framing clinically sterile rooms meant for massages, baths, examinations and relaxation. These empty zones are silent testimonials to a healing industry that is thoughtfully tailored to people, even while its equipment subjugates them completely. Tellingly, they recall the rooms of Devlin's earlier series: the operating theaters, mortuaries and autops...
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With coolly remote photographs, Devlin presents the relationships between people and institutions and then shows how certain facilities depersonalize those relationships. Conveys an insightful view into the - typically German? - mentality and source of our institutionalized humanity.
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- PublisherSteidl
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 3882439289
- ISBN 13 9783882439281
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages112
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Lucinda Devlin: Water Rites
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Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany
(2003)
ISBN 10: 3882439289
ISBN 13: 9783882439281
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Blue paper-covered boards; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Lucinda Devlin. Essay (in German and English) by Michael Mackenzie. Includes a bio-bibliography. 112 pp., with 48 four-color plates. 11-1/4 x 10 inches. New in publisher's shrink wrap. From the publisher: "German spa facilities are sites at which one can apparently be cured of chronic illnesses. Whether they date from the 19th century, the post-war period, or today, these places are fast becoming leisure-time oases. In [this] series, Lucinda Devlin has photographed the deserted interiors of these bathhouses, framing clinically sterile rooms meant for massages, baths, examinations, and relaxation. These empty zones are silent testimonials to a healing industry that is thoughtfully tailored to people, even while its equipment subjugates them completely. Tellingly, they recall the rooms of Devlin's earlier series: the operating theaters, mortuaries, and autopsy rooms in Corporal Arenas and the U.S. execution chambers in The Omega Suites. With her coolly remote photographs, Devlin presents the relationships between people and institutions, and then shows how certain facilities depersonalize those relationships. Water Rites conveys an insightful view into the--typically German?--mentality and source of our institutionalized humanity.". Seller Inventory # 111477
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition stated 2003, first printing. Text in German and English. Published on occasion of the exhibition at Museum Kurhaus Kleve, July 20-October 5, 2003 by Steidl Verlag. Hardcover in full cloth with DJ. Condition new, square tight and clean book, no edgewear, no names, no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ new, bright, no tears, no chips, no shelfwear, not clipped. 4to, 112 pages, illustrated throughout with color photographs. Seller Inventory # 019077
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