Werker 2 - A Gestural History of the Young Worker
52,000원
75 pages body, 20 pages appendix
75 illustrations
adhesive-bonded softcover
Leipzig April, 2023
ISBN: 9783959054713
Edition Number: 1
Width: 22 cm
Length: 32 cm
Language(s): English, German
Design: Werker Collective
Author: Werker Collective, Georgy Mamedov
Editor: Werker Collective, Georgy Mamedov
Drawing inspiration from the Worker Photography Movement of the 1920s, which saw photographers collaborating with workers and trade unions to visualize societal and political conditions from a working-class perspective, Werker Collective reconsiders the relationship between labour and its photographic representation — in the past and in the present. Werker 2: A Gestural History of the Young Worker takes as its starting point the representation of the working body in the former Soviet Union (USSR), where workers were depicted with strong, athletic bodies and resolute expressions on their faces. The publication combines imagery from Soviet magazines, propaganda, and archives, with documents from the Werker Archief in
Amsterdam with which it aims to interrogate the normative visualization and glorification of the worker’s body and the associated oppression of non-normative bodies. The themes explored include gender, feminism, and queerness.
Drawing inspiration from the Worker Photography Movement of the 1920s, which saw photographers collaborating with workers and trade unions to visualize societal and political conditions from a working-class perspective, Werker Collective reconsiders the relationship between labour and its photographic representation — in the past and in the present. Werker 2: A Gestural History of the Young Worker takes as its starting point the representation of the working body in the former Soviet Union (USSR), where workers were depicted with strong, athletic bodies and resolute expressions on their faces. The publication combines imagery from Soviet magazines, propaganda, and archives, with documents from the Werker Archief in
Amsterdam with which it aims to interrogate the normative visualization and glorification of the worker’s body and the associated oppression of non-normative bodies. The themes explored include gender, feminism, and queerness.
