Die Hauptstadt

Günter Steffen

Publisher
Hartmann Books
Year
2022
ISBN
978-3-96070-072-2
Specifications
hardcover with embossing German Photobook Award 2023
23 x 28 cm
160 pages
53 illustrations
Edited by Günter Jeschonnek
Text by Jewgenij Zamyatin, afterword by Günter Jeschonnek
German / English/Russian translation of the
Text by Yevgenij Zamyatin into German by Sergej Gladkich
Design Andreas Koch, Berlin
Bronze Medal

East Berlin in the eighties. Following the French film director Robert Bresson's dictum “Make visible what, without you, might never have been perceived”, the Berlin photographer Günter Steffen photographed between 1984 and 1989 an impressive cycle on East Berlin's centre, where he then lived and worked. Mostly in the early morning hours he roamed seemingly untouched and empty streets, squares, backyards, ruins and along the monstrous Berlin Wall. He captured the ghostly atmosphere of the scenery with his 35mm camera.

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