Weisse Elefanten = White Elephants

Photographs Christian Helmle ; text Konrad Tobler

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Author(s)

Konrad Tobler

Publication, year

Berlin : jovis Verlag, 2007

Scope

128 Pages, illustrated, 21 x 26 cm.

ISBN

9783939633198

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In post-colonial Africa, 'White Elephant' was the name given to buildings erected with international money and never put to use; relics of an enormous waste. Europe has its own fair share of such mammoths. Christian Helmle discovered a vast amount of monumental ruins, solitary buildings and complexes throughout Europe's cities and countrysides. ruines

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Person as subject

Christian Helmle

Keywords

photography

Location

Cabinet 19 - 4: Architectuur en onbehagen