Deffarge & Troeller

Marie-Claude Deffarge and Gordian Troeller's features and film documentaries: an oustanding legacy of 20th-century journalism

Marie-Claude Deffarge (19241984) and Gordian Troeller (19172003) collaborated as freelance journalists from the 1950s on, reporting subjectively and controversially from all over the world. This first comprehensive book on their work celebrates their outstanding features and film work that reveal the evolution of 20th-century critical photojournalism and has lost nothing of its relevance: Deffarge & Troeller investigated the roots of political conflicts that continue to shape world events to this day.

More than 1000 imagesphotos, entire reportages and film previews, book maquettes, contact sheets, film stills and scripts, as well as other documentsare supplemented by texts that contextualize Deffarge & Troeller's core topics, their approach, and the reception of their work. In addition, media professionals from some of the countries Deffarge & Troeller reported from comment on the duo's reportages and documentaries, offering new, contemporary perspectives on a journalism that, despite its critical stance, was inevitably shaped by a Eurocentric view of the world.

Autorentext

Das 1989 gegründete Centre national de l'audiovisuel (CNA) in Dudelange bewahrt und fördert das audiovisuelle Erbe Luxemburgs in Form von Ausstellungen, Vorführungen und Publikationen.

Das Museum Folkwang, 1897 gegründet und seit 1922 in Essen ansässig, beinhaltet Sammlungen zur Malerei und Skulptur des 19. Jahrhunderts, der klassischen Moderne und der Kunst nach 1945, Archäologie und Weltkunst, sowie zur Fotografie, Grafik und Plakatkunst.

Klappentext

Marie-Claude Deffarge (1924-1984) and Gordian Troeller (1917-2003) collaborated as freelance journalists from the 1950s on, reporting subjectively and controversially from all over the world. This first comprehensive book on their work celebrates their outstanding features and film work that reveal the evolution of 20th-century critical photojournalism and has lost nothing of its relevance: Deffarge & Troeller investigated the roots of political conflicts that continue to shape world events to this day.

More than 1000 images-photos, entire reportages and film previews, book maquettes, contact sheets, film stills and scripts, as well as other documents-are supplemented by texts that contextualize Deffarge & Troeller's core topics, their approach, and the reception of their work. In addition, media professionals from some of the countries Deffarge & Troeller reported from comment on the duo's reportages and documentaries, offering new, contemporary perspectives on a journalism that, despite its critical stance, was inevitably shaped by a Eurocentric view of the world.