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Berlin: In From The Cold

Title: Berlin: In From The Cold

Photographer/s: Brian Rose

Date of publication: 2009

Place of publication: New York City

Dimensions: 12×12 inches

Type of binding: Hardcover

Number of pages: 160

Number of pictures: 127

Printer: Blurb

Publisher: Self

Language: English

Category: POD

Price: $63

Summary: In 1985 I began photographing the landscape of the Iron Curtain from the Baltic to the Adriatic Seas. Berlin, a divided city, lay to the east within East Germany, and was the most visible component of that border, a vivid symbol of the Cold War.

The Berlin Wall stood for 28 years, seemingly a permanent fixture of the city and the political landscape. After a series of startling events, it was suddenly opened on November 9, 1989–20 years ago.

A few weeks after the opening, I returned with my view camera and photographed the crumbling of the Wall, and have continued to document the changes in the former border zone and elsewhere in the city.

Berlin is now one city, though as always a multi-centered metropolis. Its divisions remain evident, historical fault lines exposed—and the Wall, preserved in a few slabs here and there, remains a powerful artifact of the imagination.

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 04-09-54, Portsmouth, Virginia

Website: http://www.brianrose.com

Book link: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1235115

Donated by: Blurb

iPL Notes: This book was an Honorable Mention in the Editorial Category for Blurb’s Photography Book Now competition, 2009.

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Published on December 23, 2010 4:53 pm.
Filed under: Books Tags: 2009, Berlin: In From The Cold, Blurb, Brian Rose, Honorable Mention, Photography Book Now competition, POD, print on demand

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