Jeffrey Ladd – The Awful German Language

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Jeffrey Ladd – The Awful German LanguageIn 2011 the American photographer Jeffrey Ladd moved to Cologne, Germany, and began photographing his surroundings while learning the basics of the German language. In the process, he collected lists of interesting German vocabulary words (professions, places, things, common terms, and the outdated), which he juxtaposes with his black and white photographs; two different types of language one visual, one verbal describing a sense of his new home.

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