Jeffrey Ladd – The Awful German Language art theory one of aborted eternities and

one of aborted eternities and slackened certainties – to situations which reveal the disintegration of permanences

interwoven with a series of short texts by Mike Slack

In his book Ornament Stadt [Ornament City]

that deal with these and other topics

Jeffrey Ladd – The Awful German Language art theory one of aborted eternities andIn 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process, he collected lists of interesting German vocabulary words (professions, places, things, common terms, and the outdated), which he juxtaposes with his black and white photographs; two different types of language one visual, one verbal describing a sense of his new home.