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Informationen zum Autor An artist and photographer, Dan Dubowitz originally trained as an architect. He is also a well-respected specialist public arts project manager and has worked on projects both in the UK and Europe. His photography has been exhibited in the UK, Italy and the United States. His most recent book 'Fascismo' is to be published by Dewi Lewis in November 2009. This looks at the 'colonia' - holiday centres for children which were established on the northern Italian coast during the period of Mussolini's Fascist regime (1923-43). Klappentext Powerful and dramatic photographs that cover the UK, Europe, USA and Cuba.The nature of any society and its future can be read in its entrails ¿ in what is left behind, what is discarded. Each creates, uses and casts aside its wastelands in very different ways and it seems that a proportion of every city is always wasteland. These neglected or abandoned places are fragile and ephemeral, a transient aspect of a changing, living city, yet development appears unable to clear them away for good, only to move them on to a different site. This book explores some of these wastelands that collectively form a sustained and permanent feature of the modern city.Sites featured include the following:Beelitz, Germany ¿ an entire settlement built for victims of TB. Vockerode, Germany ¿ a giant pre-war power station in the East German industrial heartlands. Cardross, Scotland ¿ St Peter¿s Seminary now widely recognised as Scotland¿s modernist masterpiece. Orford Ness, England ¿ decommissioned nuclear research facility and military complex. Gorton, England ¿ a monastery and church designed by AW Pugin; the largest parish church of its time in the UK. In 1989 the Franciscan monks held their last mass. Ellis Island, USA ¿ the hospital wing; during the Second World War it was used as a prisoner of war camp. San Gimignano, Italy ¿ former convent and prison, now put to various uses by local community. Santa Teresa, Cuba ¿ colonial church and convent. Once a closed wall community and now a dense microcosm of a city within the larger city.An architect by training, artist and photographer Dan Dubowitz is also an established specialist public arts consultant and has worked on projects both in the UK and Europe. His photography has been exhibited in the UK, Italy and the United States. His first book, Fascismo Abbandonato, looked at the ¿colonia¿ - holiday centres for children - built on the northern italian coast during the period of Mussolini¿s Fascist regime....
