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Taking Sides, Berlin and The Wall, 1974

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Martson spent September of 1974 photographing in East and West Berlin.

Author(s): Sven Martson, John T. Hill, Claudia Roth
Appeared on: May 2018
Language: German / English
Pages: 122
Size: 195 x 220 mm
Edition: hardcover
ISBN: 9789462262614
Year: 2018
Photography: Sven Martson
Publisher: Lecturis
Design: Richard Reisen, Sector Photography, Duitsland

Walker Evans’ American Photographs and Robert Frank’s The Americans provide the DNA for many photo books including those by René Burri and Sven Martson. It is useful to view Martson’s work in the context of earlier and like minded books.

Martson spent September of 1974 photographing in East and West Berlin. In what was undoubtedly a stifling context, he captured those timeless occupations and preoccupations common to us all – labor, joy and loneliness, vanity and pride, lust and love. He served up a faithful visual journal of an inhibited culture.

Martson’s photographs capture historical facts and are, at the same time, personal and lyrical renderings of a culture. They are full with the play of ambiguities – ambiguities of space, ambiguities of relationships, and ambiguities of signs. By digesting the works of his mentors Martson has created his own distinctive style.

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Weight 650 g
ISBN

9789462262614