SLIDESHOW: LIFE BEHIND THE WALL
"The country was really bleeding to death," says Thomas Hoepker of his visit to East Berlin in the late 1950s. Because Germans were either dying or leaving, local authorities decided to build a wall, so that "no one would be able to cross any more."
Hoepker narrates this powerful slide-show of his photographs of East Berlin, which chronicle 40 years behind the wall. This is a place of greasy cakes, bugged flats, sinister men in leather jackets and something called a "perhaps bag", an object of unexpected poetry. Children play alongside barbed wire and "mediocre-looking people" rule the country with an iron fist. Also, there is beauty and complexity and dislocation.
~ EMILY BOBROW
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Nice slide show. The whole
November 25, 2009 - 17:32 — Henrik (not verified)Nice slide show. The whole "concept" of the Berlin Wall is pretty hard to understand and even more so for todays young. Today East Berlin is one of my favourite cities in Europe. Go there if you haven't already been.
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