Delphine Bedel — All that is solid melts into the air - Notes on tourism

Rotterdam: Episode Publishers. First edition, first printing. 56 pp., 24 x 17. Condition: As New. Book is new in publishers wraps. ‘All that is solid melts’ into air explores three controversial tourist destinations and cultural heritages located in Germany. The Buried Giant Lenin Memorial in Berlin, the Nazi holiday resort of Prora on the Baltic island of Rügen and the ‘Chalk Cliffs on Rügen’, painted by Caspar David Friedrich. Their identity, use and meaning have shifted radically over time. Using her photographic research and writings as a starting point, writers from diverse disciplines were invited to contribute to the book, resulting in unexpected historical and critical perspectives on the relation between visual culture, leisure and memory politics. Delphine Bedel (ed.) Authors: Bruno Latour, Rachel Esner, Delphine Bedel, Franscesco Bernardelli, Marco Pasi, Thibaut de Ruyter and Olivier Rolin. The Top 15 Photo Books of 2008. Selected by Melanie McWhorter (Photo-Eye magazine) in Fraction magazine, 3.