ARTE DOCUMENTARY

The documentary film by Daniel Guthmann and Joachim Palutzki introduces four photographers who worked in the GDR and whose work has been rediscovered in recent years: Eberhard Klöppel, who grew up in Mansfelder Land and, as a press photographer for the “Neue Berliner Illustrierte”, realized many photo reportages that today offer diverse insights into the reality of people’s lives in the GDR. Dietmar Riemann from Hartha in Saxony, who became increasingly critical of the state in which he lived. In 1986, he applied to leave the country, which was not approved until 1989. During the period of waiting and uncertainty, he wrote a diary of over 1000 pages and secretly photographed the Berlin Wall and border fortifications.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Barbara Wolff, who was born in Brandenburg, documented life in the countryside and everyday village life, many aspects of which seemed archaic and timeless despite the socialist transformation of agricultural production.
The Berlin-born photographer Christiane Eisler came into contact with the punk movement in the early 1980s and portrayed one of the first punk bands in the GDR: Wutanfall, like the living conditions in the educational institutions to which young punks were forcibly committed in the 1980s.

Available in the Arte Mediathek until 12/2024

Barbara Wolff NEW YORK, SIDEWALK CLOSED

Black and white photographs of New York from 2023.
With an essay by Daniel Blochwitz in German and English.

“After the successful photo book “METROPOLIS, BERLIN”, German Photo Book Award in Silver 2021/22, we are now publishing the new photo book by Barbara Wolff. “NEW YORK, SIDEWALK CLOSED” – a book that is once again dedicated to one of the great metropolises. Barbara Wolff’s photographs were taken during a month-long stay in New York in June 2023. In almost timeless black and white images, the photographer shows us the New York of today, the post-pandemic city that is rising after a dark and destructive time. The photographer has succeeded in wresting her own images from the much-photographed New York with great depth of field. With her unmistakably precise visual language, many levels of New York life are revealed and thus go beyond the actual depiction. This can also be seen in the photographs – the dream destination of many tourists on the one hand, the struggle for survival of the inhabitants, their hope on the other. The picture chapters that structure the book are introduced by an essay by Daniel Blochwitz, who lives in Switzerland as a freelance curator and author specializing in photography.” (Book presentation by Lunik Berlin Verlag) Barbara Wolff: NEW YORK, SIDEWALK CLOSED 144 pages, 21 x 28 cm, 112 black and white photographs in triplex print, thread stitching, hardcover with linen, printed at DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg. The book is available in four cover variants.

ISBN 978-3-9822385-1-7

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Lunik Berlin Verlag: NEW YORK, SIDEWALK CLOSED

Frankfurter Allgemeine, review, PDF

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NEW YORK, SIDEWALK CLOSED

Screenprint Metropolis #4, Berlin – Alexanderplatz

Edition 2-color screen print, edition of 50, signed and numbered, format 70×100 cm on 300 g Fredrigoni, printed by Oliver Nerlich, Berlin Price 150,00 Euro incl. VAT, plus shipping

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