Spring of discontent 1964-1974

Title: Spring of discontent 1964-1974

Photographer(s): Michael Ruetz

Writer(s): Michael Ruetz, Rolf Sachsse

Designer(s): Julia Melzner

Publisher(s): Steidl, Göttingen, Germany

Year: 2009

Print run:

Language(s): English

Pages: 192

Size: 25 x 29,5 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Edition:

Print: Printed in Germany

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: World, 1964-1974

ISBN: 9783865218667

Michael Ruetz is the major photographic chronicler of the period around 1968. Documenting the political earthquakes in West Germany (and the eastern half of Berlin), and in Czechoslovakia, Ruetz produced some of the era’s classic images, which were immediately bought up by magazines such as Time, Life, Der Spiegel and Stern.

Ruetz was more interested in the upheaval than in the students revolting in lecture halls and out on the street. The political earthquake and its consequences were documented not just at the epicenter but also on the edges in Hamburg, the eastern half of Berlin, passers-by on the street and in the Third World. Unlike any other photographer, Ruetz caught the mood of the time, the political, artistic and intellectual climate change. Many of his photographs have become iconic images, firmly planted in our collective pictorial memory.