Publisher's Description
Aura Rosenberg: A Berlin Childhood
Essays by Esther Leslie and Friedrich Meschede.
After leaving Germany in 1932, Walter Benjamin
wrote Berliner Kindheit Um Neunzehnhundert, a
collection of 42 texts that functions as a childhood
memoir, distilling the poignancy of a lost childhood from vividly remembered places, things and
experiences. Arriving in Berlin with her husband
and young daughter in 1991, Aura Rosenberg was
introduced to Benjamin's memoir, and found herself moving, uncannily, through the very spaces
Benjamin once had. Her goal became to produce
photos to match each entry in Benjamin's book.
This volume of 160 pictures, juxtaposed with
excerpts from Benjamin and accounts of her own
investigation, is the result of her quest. What
emerges is a multilayered allegory that offers a
look back to the origins of modernity through the
lens of contemporary Berlin.
Aura Rosenberg was born in New York. Her works
are included in the collections of the Guggenheim
Museum, the Cincinnati Museum of Art, and the
Norton Foundation, Los Angeles. Head Shots, her
first book, appeared in 1996. Rosenberg lives and
works in New York and Berlin.
Book Information
ISBN:
3882438126
Publisher:
Steidl
Format:
Hardcover, 176 pages
Language:
English
Dimensions:
9,5 x
11,8 x
0,8 inches