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Publisher Note

The first multilayer colour film was developed in 1936 at the Agfa Filmfabrik Wolfen; the factory, now operating as ORWO Filmfabrik (ORiginal WOlfen), became the most important producer of colour film in East Germany. Today, all that is left at the site is the small company Filmotec, which produces a special archival film with long-term stability that can be inscribed with digital data in the form of QR codes. The photo book Wolfen is made up of a mix of different layers: photographs taken by Tobias Zielony in Wolfen-Bitterfeld; the storing of these images in Filmotec’s archive film format; and a text that switches between essay and science fiction in a bid to express an untold story, a story of darkness and cold, of dwindling work in the film factory, most of which was carried out by women — or by forced labourers in the period up to 1945. In the era of analogue film, photographic processing had to be done in the dark: Zielony’s work tackles this idea on a biographical, physical, and historical level

Publisher
Release Place Liepzig, Germany
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2023
Credits
Editor: Marta Herford
Designer: Lyosha Kritsouk
Artist: Tobias Zielony
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 9783959057073
Work  
Subform Photobook
Topics Factory, Film, Women
Methods Photography
Language German, English
Format hardcover
Dimensions 21.5 × 32.0 cm
Pages 212