Nationalfeiertag Diary (Signed and numbered, edt of 40)

Katja Stuke
Nationalfeiertag Diary (Signed and numbered, edt of 40)

Photographs: Katja Stuke

Publisher: Self-published

44 pages

Year: 2015

Comments: Metal binding, folding pages, 21 x 15.5 cm. In very good condition, some folds on the envelope. Signed and numbered on cover and envelope 40 copies.

In relation to her acclaimed book, "Nationalfeiertag," Katja Stuke has created this zine along the same subject, using photo and text archives to create collages.

"Nationalfeiertag" is a book about one of the biggest, and most monitored squares in the world: Tiananmen Square in Beijing. 26 years ago the student protest took place in April and May and the massacre on June 4th. Officials and police try to control the images taken on the Square. Katja Stuke filmed a few hours of material on Tiananmen Square, and Chinese National Holiday on Oct. 1st as the following Golden Week. From this footage she extracted hundreds of portraits. The book combines these portraits with newspaper clippings which are collected and spread by the June 4th Museum in Hong Kong to keep the memory of the protests of 1989 alive.