Riding on the edge. The daredevil life of the Wall of Death drivers in the motordrome
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Wall of Death
Motodrome. The Oldest Travelling Steep Wall in the World. Since 1928
Donald Ganslmeier and his colleagues on the Wall of Death of the motordrome are amongst the last of their kind. Their art is threatened with extinction. The photographer Florian Holzherr has created a powerful memorial to the action-packed life around the boards that signify the world. His black-and-white photos of the daredevil motorcyclists and the accompanying texts show the myth of the Wall of Death in a fascinating new way.
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For several years the Munich photographer Florian Holzherr accompanied the steep-wall motorcyclists around Donald Ganslmeier with his analogue camera while setting up the Wall of Death and riding and then dismantling it again, and then in their lives on the road. The result is images which show the story of an artistry that is threatened with extinction. In impressive, unfiltered black-and-white pictorial language accompanied by powerful texts, the volume enables the reader to learn of the fascination and passion, and also of the risk, as it provides an insight into the lives of the artists beyond the show.
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Contributions by Florian Dering, Markus Götting
224 pages, 150 duplex illustrations22 × 33 cm, hardcover
HIRMER PREMIUM
Linen binding
ISBN: 978-3-7774-4184-9
Keywords
photography, 21st century, 20th century, cultural history, contemporary art, Oktoberfest
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