New Catalogue

This Project is probably our most in depth photographic study. It involved traveling to Bavaria, Germany over the course of several years to document the redevelopment of Hitler’s alpine vacation home and military compound at the Obersalzberg. The Hotel Intercontinental was building a five star alpine resort on this location. The area had been under US control since World War II and was given to the Bavarian State in 1996. Previously it had been used as a recreation area for US troops. The redevelopment was a bold plan and of course it prompted critique and debate in Europe in the US. For New Catalogue, the construction of the hotel did not interest us as a photographic documentation per se. Instead we wanted to find a narrative that allowed us to reveal the complexities of landscape and memory so we settled on a documenting a hike that Adolf Hitler had done in the area with his mentor Dietrich Eckart before he became head of the Nazi Party. The area was very symbolic for Hitler and used extensively as propaganda. Later we traveled to the site with Scholar Brett Kaplan to assist her research and provide photographs for the book Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory.