
LAMF: Three Days in Berlin, 1987
- Publisher
- Magic Hour Press
- Year
- 2026
- ISBN
- 9781738901395
- Specifications
- Hardcover
17 × 22 cm
80 pages
Black and white photographs
English
LAMF: Three Days in Berlin, 1987 by John Gossage, initially conceived as a hand-assembled book exclusively for his friends, is a perfect example of a photobook as an art form. Gossage used a custom telephoto lens and 6000 ASA film to photograph the area around the Berlin Wall and “no man's land,” capturing the somber atmosphere of a divided city. This new edition of LAMF, created in close collaboration with the photographer, features an expanded selection of 44 images (double the original) printed in rich three-color with a special UV screen varnish to emulate the original gelatin silver prints applied to support. The book also includes a new interview with publisher Jordan Weitzman about the genesis of the work and Gossage's long obsession with Berlin, also the theme of his acclaimed books Stadt des Schwarz and Berlin in the Time of the Wall. What was once one of the rarest books in Gossage's oeuvre is now available to all: a photobook masterpiece by one of its most prolific exponents and a moving document of the history of the Cold War.