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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
Epstein: In 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 died in the
Holocaust, Germany has since held an uneasy resonance for Epstein
and his family. Epstein set out to confront this past by
photographing the remnants of Berlins 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 Berlins present to be a fraught accumulation of the
layers of its past. Mitch Epstein, born in 1952 in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, is one of Americas most influential contemporary
photographers. Epstein's books at Steidl include "Family Business"
(2003), "Recreation: American Photographs" 19731988 (2005), and
"American Power" (2009) which won a Deutscher Fotobuchpreis gold
medal in 2010.
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