Ruhr

First edition of Ruhr by Joachim Brohm (2007)

First impression 

Large format hardback in near fine condition

Some very minor wear to dust jacket, now in a protective sleeve

Some minor foxing to top of pages

Some very slight toning to extremities of pages

Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm

Published by Steidl

About

"The belief of the Americans, that the photographic response to social reality, if it was to achieve valitity in the long term, can only lie in a coherent documentary photographic idiom, and not in any form of in-your-face critique, found an early reaction in Brohm’s work. Today, more than 20 years after it was made, the significance of this work in the history of recent photography is abundantly clear. It constitutes a central link between photography in the USA and Germany since 1970. Anyone looking at the sequence of pictures in this book, will also discover in Ruhr a work of unmistakeable artistic vitality, which will be of lasting significance, independently of all historic coordinates."

Heinz Liesbrock