Berlin

Mitch Epstein
9783869302249 / 3869302240       
Berlin

Berlin

Mitch Epstein
9783869302249 / 3869302240       
Publisher Steidl 2011
Edition Hardcover , 72 pages
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Berliners have chosen to leave traces of the worst of themselves in their architecture and landscape. They have understood what a largely amnesiac America has not: reform relies on memory.–Mitch EpsteinIn 2008 Mitch Epstein won the Berlin Prize in Arts and Letters and was awarded a six-month residency at the American Academy in Berlin. Epstein proudly accepted the offer and initially planned to read and reflect in the academy’s comfortable surroundings. But he could not ignore the call of contemporary Berlin for long. As a Jewish-American whose relatives had died in the Holocaust, Epstein set out to confront this past by photographing the remnants of Berlin’s war and postwar histories. The resulting images–including the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, fashion billboards at Checkpoint Charlie, the Jewish Memorial at Potsdammer Platz and the Dalai Lama speaking at the Brandenburg Gate–reveal Berlin’s present to be a fraught accumulation of the layers of its past.

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Book title Berlin
Photographer Mitch Epstein
ISBN 10 3869302240        / 3-86930-224-0       
ISBN 13 9783869302249 / 978-3-86930-224-9
Publisher Steidl
Publish date Mar 2011
Publish year 2011
Book format Hardcover
Book format details clothbound hardcover book in slipcase
Language English
Pages 72 pages
Dimensions 24,5 x 29,5 cm / 9.75 x 11.5 inches

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