RENE GROEBLI - DIE MUSCHEL a book that shows the

a book that shows the city and surroundings as a personal and emotional experience

and the boulevard hummed with life during the evenings

Polo Hofer

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

This first edition is meticulously crafted

RENE GROEBLI - DIE MUSCHEL a book that shows theMade between 1984 and 1986, the photographs in Hidden Places are risky if not challenging. The German title: Die Muschel in English The Shell is intentionally allegorical. The Latin word vagina used in medicine to describe a part of the female body sounds too scientific to embrace emotional or poetic involvement. Where language reaches its limits, images can be helpful. Some of the early photographs of vulvas in art were taken by women. This marked an