Georgina Laube

Written by Georgina Laube “Are we waiting for the eighties? Did it happen? Was I away? It looks like Wednesday on the written page. All that waiting. Time forgotten. Just a day, or was the sixties magic? Yes, but completely inarticulate. The seventies worked out the chaos of the sixties. The eighties turned out to be magic.” - David Bailey, David Bailey. 80s The 1980s are often described as a decade of excess, rebellion, shifts in pop culture, and relentless reinvention.

Written by Georgina Laube “The instrument itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science." - Edgar Allen Poe, The Daguerrotype The invention of the Daguerreotype, the first publicly available photographic process which led to the camera, permanently changed visual culture after being officially announced in August of 1839. The invention of photography was one of the markers of a new modern world.

The International Auschwitz Committee and Gerhard Steidl, founder of the Steidl publishing company, did not ask Juergen Teller to create “beautiful” photographs of a place as devastating, haunting, and horrific as Auschwitz-Birkenau. The term " beautiful " cannot be applied to Auschwitz Birkenau, a contemporary photobook depicting the concentration camp, as it relates more to the physical subject than to Juergen Teller’s skill as a photographer.