DAS KÖLNER HEIL
Photobook
Cologne salvation (Das Kölner Heil)
Power and Rituals of Roman Catholic Church
Photography 1986-1996
The documentary photography of Bernd Arnold in the monograph DAS KÖLNER HEIL shows the hermetic and hierarchic world of the clergy of the Cologne Catherdral. It is marked by merit and mercy, by sorrow and hope, by sin and salvation. The photographs analyse the power structures of an autonomic system of salvation, surviving seemingly untouched by all developments of our century.
Hardcover 32x24cm, 38 plates, 56 pages,
design by Winfried Heininger,
publisher Christoph and Markus Schaden,
published by Schaden Verlag, Cologne 1997.
(Selection of pages)
See also: WAHL KAMPF RITUAL (Rituals of election campaigns)
published by Edition Panorama, Germany 2013.