Spring 2008

 

Cold Stone: Europe Ten Years After WWII
Photographs by Roger Hagan
June 24 through August 14, 2008

“Ten Years after the defeat of Nazi Germany, almost everyone I saw in Western Europe had experienced the war. Perpetrators, resistance fighters, victims and collaborators were still alive and functioning in European society. The nearby Iron Curtain that closed Poland, East Germany and much of Austria to me was still splitting families and peoples.”

Such was the Europe that Seattle photographer Roger Hagan experienced over fifty years ago. Cold Stone, a collection of black and white photographs, records Hagan’s sensations of finding beauty amidst stonework forms and the complexities of Europe attempting to regain a sense of normalcy in the aftermath of the war.