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Landfahrerplatz kein Gewerbe

Landfahrerplatz kein Gewerbe

Alfred Ullrich | Landfahrerplatz kein Gewerbe | photo series | Germany | 2006 - 2011 | vis_00241

Rights held by: Alfred Ullrich | Licensed by: Alfred Ullrich | Licensed under: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International | Provided by: Alfred Ullrich – Private Archive

Alfred Ullrich | Landfahrerplatz kein Gewerbe | photo series | Germany | 2006 - 2011 | vis_00241 Rights held by: Alfred Ullrich | Licensed by: Alfred Ullrich | Licensed under: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International | Provided by: Alfred Ullrich – Private Archive

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Rights held by: Alfred Ullrich | Licensed by: Alfred Ullrich | Licensed under: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International | Provided by: Alfred Ullrich – Private Archive

Description

The work by Ullrich, Landfahrerplatz kein Gewerbe, Dachau, consists of a street sign warning that itinerants are not allowed to trade or peddle in the area, but in the work the inscription is crossed out.

This simple action highlights how seemingly neutral regulations in fact enforce the segregation of Roma travelers from others. Thus discrimination on the basis of ethnicity is preserved through language and visual public memory, something that gives way to reinforcing the already existing stereotype of Roma people as “exotic” creatures full of wanderlust.

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after 2006 - before 2011
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Object Number
vis_00241

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