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Anna Arendt was born in the German Democratic Republic. She was 24 when the Wall fell; her daughter was 2. Her parents were born in Germany in 1940, children of the war. Both of her grandfathers were soldiers who had served in Poland between 1940 and 1942. One returned two years after the war ended; the other never returned. Later, Anna Arendt discovered that the father of her husband, photographer Sid Grossman, came from the region in Poland where her two grandfathers had been stationed during the war.
As a child, she found a secret shelf containing family photo albums. “That’s when I discovered the power of an image. The photo was taken in the summer of 1940. It shows a young family: my grandmother, her baby, and my grandfather in a German uniform. It’s an image full of contradictions, one that still evokes mixed feelings to this day.”
Photographed primarily in Germany and Poland over the past 15 years, the work drifts through time like a bloody memory. Walking naked through the dark forest, wolves circling and howling. A girl who becomes a mother who becomes a grandmother who becomes a child. Haunted villages and souls in peril. The harsh reality of the past blends seamlessly with moments of ecstasy that seem plucked from a Grimm fairy tale.
Vanishing is an unforgettable portrayal of how beauty and brutality coexist in the hearts of men and beasts.
Charcoal Press, 2024
144 pages
18.5 × 25 cm
ISBN 9781736234556
Anna Arendt was born in the German Democratic Republic. She was 24 when the Wall fell; her daughter was 2. Her parents were born in Germany in 1940, children of the war. Both of her grandfathers were soldiers who had served in Poland between 1940 and 1942. One returned two years after the war ended; the other never returned. Later, Anna Arendt discovered that the father of her husband, photographer Sid Grossman, came from the region in Poland where her two grandfathers had been stationed during the war.
As a child, she found a secret shelf containing family photo albums. “That’s when I discovered the power of an image. The photo was taken in the summer of 1940. It shows a young family: my grandmother, her baby, and my grandfather in a German uniform. It’s an image full of contradictions, one that still evokes mixed feelings to this day.”
Photographed primarily in Germany and Poland over the past 15 years, the work drifts through time like a bloody memory. Walking naked through the dark forest, wolves circling and howling. A girl who becomes a mother who becomes a grandmother who becomes a child. Haunted villages and souls in peril. The harsh reality of the past blends seamlessly with moments of ecstasy that seem plucked from a Grimm fairy tale.
Vanishing is an unforgettable portrayal of how beauty and brutality coexist in the hearts of men and beasts.
Charcoal Press, 2024
144 pages
18.5 × 25 cm
ISBN 9781736234556
