CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri - Dessau 1945. Moderne zerstört / Dessau 1945. Modern destroyed. Edition Bauhaus 45

"Above and beyond the Bauhaus, the city of Dessau was a culminating point of industrial modernity.
Over the 13 years of the Nazi regime, the city experienced an unparalleled rise and fall which has marked it to this day.
Dessau was an armaments metropolis, Gau capital, 'company town' for Junkers’ aircraft and engine factories, and the main production site of the poison gas Zyklon B, with which hundreds of thousands of people were murdered in the concentration camps." (publisher's note)

"The present volume 'Dessau 1945. Modern destroyed' tells the contradictory history of the Bauhaus city under National Socialism.
'Dessau 1945. Modern destroyed' looks back on the context of the devastation and devotes itself to the destroyed modernity as well as its destructive potentials.

39 photographs by the French photographer Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, who documented the return of forced laborers with his camera in Dessau in June 1945, complete the picture of this epoch with many previously un-published photos of him." (publisher's note, © Spector, 2014)

About the photographer, Henri CARTIER-BRESSON

Photo books by Henri CARTIER-BRESSON