Artists' book featuring photographs of soldiers with loved ones: "[p]ublished on the occasion of the exhibition Christian Poltanski, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main... During his stay in Berlin, the artist came across many photographs of the members of the Wehrmacht with their fiancées, wives, and children. in the context of their everyday life, at home or on holiday, and removed from the trappings of propaganda, these soldiers seem like ordinary men... Watching television in America at the end of the Gulf war, Christian Boltanski was struck by the images of the troops coming home: These men who, by the force of circumstance, had killed, seemed so kind and almost childlike" -- from Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991.
