GHOSTS INVITED,
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A BORDER DIVIDES CONTEMPORARY URBAN EXISTENCE. ON ONE SIDE OF THIS BORDER, THERE IS THE SOCIAL-MEDIAFUELED, MAGAZINE-PICTURED LIFE OF WELLINTEGRATED CITY DWELLERS. ON THE OTHER SIDE, THERE IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF LIFE. IT IS THE LIFE OF PEOPLE WHOSE DAYLIGHT LACKS A FEW COLORS AND WHOSE HEARTS BEAT IN A VACUUM. THESE CIVIC GHOSTS HAVE THEIR OWN PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT URBAN EXISTENCE. THEIR STORIES ARE ALWAYS UNUSUAL, OFTEN INSIGHTFUL, AND OCCASIONALLY DISTURBING. OVER A PERIOD OF SEVERAL DECADES, DAVID SPÄTH HAS TRACED THE EVER-EVOLVING FAULTLINE THAT FRAGMENTS CONTEMPORARY CITY-LIFE. HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK AIMS TO CAPTURE AND PRAISE THE UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE OF CIVIC GHOSTS. WHILE HIS APPROACH IS RESPECTFUL, IT IS NOT ENTIRELY NEUTRAL. IT IS AN APPROACH FRAMED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S UPBRINGING IN THE SOCIO-CULTURAL CLIMATE OF LATE-TWENTIETH-CENTURY SOUTHERN GERMANY. Language: English.
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