中文简介：

本书是纽约摄影师 Collier Schorr 的Wald und Wiesen系列丛书的第三卷。

1990年，Schorr开始在德国南部开展摄影工作，为一个历史上的幽灵小镇创作纪录片和虚构肖像。他在本书中将战争摄影师，旅行肖像画家，人类学家和家庭历史学家等角色重叠，在历史人物的视角上讲述了一个有关于记忆，民族，战争，移民和家庭，时间与地点交错编织的故事。

在《八月》中，Schorr采用了在施韦比施格明德这一时期制作的宝丽来探索图像的边缘空间，他对作品进行了历史化处理，试图揭示了当代德国人与他们的过去融合在一起时的矛盾，以及艺术家与主体之间、主体与服装之间的距离。

英文简介：

August is the third volume in a series of books entitled Forests and Fields (Wald und Wiesen).

In the early 1990s Collier Schorr began working on and off in Southern Germany, compiling a documentary and fictional portrait of a small town inhabited by historical apparitions. Combining the overlapping roles of war photographer, traveling portraitist, anthropologist and family historian, Schorr tells the interwoven stories of a place and time determined by memory, nationalism, war, emigration and family.

August employs Polaroids made by Schorr in Schwabish Gmund and in this period to explore the liminal space of images that were never intended to persist beyond the immediate moment. Looking back some 20 years, August both historicizes the work but also examines the devices of making, revealing the mistakes in attempting to merge contemporary Germans into their past, implicitly exposing the distance between artist and subject, and between the subject and costumes.