Donald Weber - Interrogations - 2011

Welcome to this special sale of books by authors listed in the Photobook by Parr & Badger. Donald Weber's 'Interrogation' is listed in Photobook volume III on page 137. The book has 160 pages and 77 color photographs, is paperback with a sewn binding, and is presented in a titled slipcase.

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Result of a long-term project in Ukraine after independence: 'Interrogation shows people questioned by the police and subjected to physical and psychological assaults.' The interrogations begin with a prologue setting the scene for these scenes: a series of desolate landscapes, both urban and rural, revealing the harsh world of the collapse of the Soviet Union. (from Parr & Badger).

After a solitary trip to Chernobyl in 2005, Donald Weber quickly returned to the abandoned site of the nuclear disaster and spent the next six years in Russia and Ukraine photographing the ruins of the relentless storm we call History. 'Questions' is the result of his personal quest to uncover the hidden meaning of the bloody 20th century. Traveling and living among ordinary people who endured so much suffering and survived everything, Weber began to see the modern state as a primitive and bloody sacrificial rite of an unnameable Power. In dialogue with writer Larry Frolick—whose ancestors were decimated during the final months of World War II—Weber persistently and provocatively addresses his questions to both survivors and the ghosts of countless victims of the State, resurrecting their last moments by adopting their perspective and delivering a kind of incantatory meditation on their intimate encounters with Power. The police, prostitutes, thugs, dissidents, and scammers who populate these pages are all orphans of a secret history; the contours of our collective destiny are drawn in Weber's epic work, broadening our understanding of what it means to be an actor in today's dark opera.

Copy in excellent condition, almost like new, housed in its case. From my personal collection, carefully preserved. Shipping is protected with reinforced packaging and guaranteed international postal tracking. For multiple purchases, combined shipping is possible, with a refund of any excess postage paid via Paypal.

0.4 kg. without packaging