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oapen-20.500.12657-540732022-04-16T09:37:08Z What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea? Fühmann, Franz Photography and photographs;Photographs: collections;Individual photographers bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AJ Photography & photographs::AJC Photographs: collections bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AJ Photography & photographs::AJB Individual photographers The dignity of cognitively disabled people and the ethics of representing their lives are at the heart of an extraordinary yet little-known book first published in the former German Democratic Republic. Was für eine Insel in was für einem Meer, or What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea (Rostock, Hinstorff, 1986) depicts residents of a church-run institution for people with cognitive disabilities in astonishing black-and-white photographs by Dietmar Riemann and in a probing, poignant essay by esteemed German writer Franz Fühmann. This important text, which moved from a medical model to a historical and cultural view of disability as an aspect of human identity and experience, is translated into English for the first time by Elizabeth Hamilton and includes reflections on the book and its impact. As fuller, global histories of disability are now being written, What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea opens an essential window onto a formerly shuttered world, demonstrating the power of the arts to hone our capacity to perceive and appreciate human difference. 2022-04-15T15:09:25Z 2022-04-15T15:09:25Z 2021 book 9781643150277 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54073 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9781643150284.pdf Lever Press 10.3998/mpub.12467134 10.3998/mpub.12467134 ef2222a7-42fd-4619-af89-7b20915b4b05 9781643150277 218 open access
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The dignity of cognitively disabled people and the ethics of representing their lives are at the heart of an extraordinary yet little-known book first published in the former German Democratic Republic. Was für eine Insel in was für einem Meer, or What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea (Rostock, Hinstorff, 1986) depicts residents of a church-run institution for people with cognitive disabilities in astonishing black-and-white photographs by Dietmar Riemann and in a probing, poignant essay by esteemed German writer Franz Fühmann. This important text, which moved from a medical model to a historical and cultural view of disability as an aspect of human identity and experience, is translated into English for the first time by Elizabeth Hamilton and includes reflections on the book and its impact. As fuller, global histories of disability are now being written, What Kind of Island in What Kind of Sea opens an essential window onto a formerly shuttered world, demonstrating the power of the arts to hone our capacity to perceive and appreciate human difference.
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