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Berlin. Portrait of a City (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
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Berlin. Portrait of a City (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
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The spirit of Berlin: a photographic journey into the city's
history Berlin has survived two world wars, was divided by a wall
during the Cold War, and after the fall of the Wall was re-united.
The city emerged as a center of European power and culture. From
1860 to the present day, this book presents the story of Berlin in
photographs, portraits, maps, and aerial views. With nearly 700
pages of emotional, atmospheric images, from giddy pictures of the
Roaring Twenties to devastating images of war to heartwarming
postwar photos of a city picking up the pieces?the Reichstag in
ruins and later wrapped by Christo and Jeanne-Claude?this is the
most comprehensive photographic study on Berlin ever made. More
than a tribute to the city and its civic, social, and photographic
history, this book especially pays homage to Berlin's inhabitants:
full of hope and strength, in their faces is reflected Berlin's
undying soul. ? Including images by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helmut
Newton, Ren? Burri, Robert Capa, Thomas Struth, and Wolfgang
Tillmans as well as well-known Berlin photo-chroniclers such as
Friedrich Seidenst?cker, Erich Salomon, Willy R?mer, and Heinrich
Zille. ? Quotations from Berliners and Berlin connoisseurs such as
Vladimir Nabokov, Alfred D?blin, Herwarth Walden, Marlene Dietrich,
Billy Wilder, Max Schmeling, Willy Brandt, Helmut Newton, Simon
Rattle, and David Bowie. Also included: an index of photographers?
biographies. The author: Hans Christian Adam studied psychology,
art history and communication studies in G?ttingen and Vienna. As a
specialist in historical pictorial material, he has published
numerous articles and books, including titless on travel and war
photography. For thisbook he has researched in public and private
collections, viewed tens of thousands of images and also profited
from the rich collection of written material in the Berlin State
Library. He is also the author of TASCHEN's Edward Sheriff Curtis:
The North American Indian, Karl Blossfeldt, and Eug?ne Atget:
Paris.
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