Projects from Becker Stefan
name
Becker Stefan (stefan)
country
germany
university
Fachhochschule Dortmund
department
Design
university address
Max-Ophüls-Platz 2
44047 Dortmund
university country
germany
id
0013301
title
Eine Partei
group members
Patrick Hamilton(Photographer), Stefan Becker (Designer)
professor(s)
Prof. Cindy Gates, Prof. Ralf Bohn
rank
229
tags
year of making
2010
uploaded
2011-02-14 19:56:51
The CSU is a popular party, which consistently combines modernness and tradition. The staging actions of the party can ironically be against each other. This happens on the sidelines, behind the stages, during the human and non-political meetings, in the back rooms.
This book looks at the staging by the CSU. It does not criticize the representation of politics, instead it is an explanatory documentation – with humour, with distance, but also with understanding.
Pragmatic managers posing in traditional costume, wrinkled faces in international dress code. The portraits make masks and costumes tangible, without claiming that there is a true face.
The book design emphasizes this approach of political representation. Large inflated letters stand against a computer generated typography. They emphasize the humorous approach in the photographs. The viewer is offered two types of reading. He can look at the photographs without additional information and so without interference by simply opening the fold.
