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5/6/2014

1914/18 - Pictures from the Border

Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur

Photo postcards were among the most informative pictorial documents from the period of the First World War. These cards, sent in their hundreds of thousands by soldiers from the front to their loved ones at home, were not just simple industrially-produced printed matter. Often they were original photographs taken on site by amateurs and enlarged on photographic paper in small editions: portraits taken outdoors, scenes from the field kitchen or hospital, views of men socialising or in contact with the civilian population. Over the years, the Fotostiftung Schweiz has collected more than 1,000 of these touching pictorial witnesses and is presenting them now for the first time - parallel to the installation of large tapestries by Stephan Schenk entitled "The Way of the Cross". It is a work done over the past three years, is based on 14 photographs of the largest battlefields of the First World War in Europe and overseas. Schenk deliberately narrows his focus, limiting himself to a small section of the ground the size of a soldier's grave. Opening: Friday 6 June 2014, 6pm.

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