Publisher/Edition Stemmle

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A collection of works by Olaf Martens, a photographer from the former East Germany. Born in 1963, Martens studied photography at the University of Graphic and Book Arts in Leipzig, and is known for his dramatic and ironic style. He pursues his own unique aesthetic through spaces constructed like a stage and the contrast between the everyday and the extraordinary. This book is a collection of Martens' early representative works, including works photographed in ruins, ballet schools, and military facilities in the former East Germany and Russia. The placement of the models, their costumes, and the situations are theatrical, and through the medium of photography, he raises questions about social structures, gender, and aesthetic consciousness.