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Work Type:	photography
Date of work:	1993
Materials:	medium: 6 b/w photographs
Measurements:	height: 110 cm width: 140 cm notes: each
Style Period:	contemporary art
Subject:	Architecture, immigrants, social history, Germany
Technique:	photography

Description:	‘Frauke Eigen’s grainy black and white photographs were taken at a housing estate in Lichtenhagen, Germany, home for many Vietnamese immigrants. The images were shot in a building which had been razed to the ground by neo-Nazis. We're not shown the human or personal tragedy, but instead focus on details of the physical damage to the building-which resounds with horrific loss.‘ [MORE] [LESS] ‘Frauke Eigen’s grainy black and white photographs were taken at a housing estate in Lichtenhagen, Germany, home for many Vietnamese immigrants. The images were shot in a building which had been razed to the ground by neo-Nazis. We're not shown the human or personal tragedy, but instead focus on details of the physical damage to the building-which resounds with horrific loss.‘

Source:	Swenson, I., “BT New Contemporaries”, exhibition guide, 1994

Date of source:	1994