{"title":"Gift Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"17372-frank-kunert-wunderland-zehn-postkarten","title":"Frank Kunert","description":"\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003eFrank Kunert (*1963 in Frankfurt\/Main) literally builds a house for his ideas by staging them in small, model-size settings. With unbelievable meticulousness, he goes to great lengths working out details and staging, until everything looks deceptively real. The resulting photographs are not simply illustrations of true-to-life imitations of reality—on the contrary! 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