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Gastarbeiter

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Gast·ar·beit·er  (gästär-btr)
n.
A guest worker, especially one in Germany.
[German : Gast, guest (from Middle High German, from Old High German; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots) + Arbeiter, worker (from arbeiten, to work, from Arbeit, work, from Middle High German arebeit, from Old High German arabeit; see orbh- in Indo-European roots).]


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How does our understanding of Hofer's "architecture of absence" change when it is considered together with what we might term her "architecture of presence"--the late '70s photographic studies of Turkish Gastarbeiter (guest workers), congregating at home and at neighborhood hangouts in Cologne and Hamburg, that immediately preceded her shift to depopulated interiors?
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