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"In 1972, on the occasion of a visit to relatives in Leipzig, two young photographers, Ute ESKILDSEN and Timm RAUTERT, had resolved to photograph this city together and, if possible, to then publish the series as a book. The latter took a good fifty years. Both had met during their studies of photography at the Folkwangschule für Gestaltung in Essen. There was no thought yet of the prominent role they would one day play for photography in Germany. Ute ESKILDSEN would build up the Photographic Collection at the Museum Folkwang Essen and lead it to international recognition, Timm RAUTERT would take on a professorship for photography at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst / Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig.
For Ute ESKILDSEN it was her first visit to the GDR. Timm RAUTERT, on the other hand, his mother was from Leipzig, had already visited his uncle and aunt there many times as a child and learned to love the city. During a week in the fall of 1972, a very subjective, silent picture of Leipzig was created.The two developed the films as soon as they returned, and the first enlargements were satisfactory.The project, however, was put on hold for the time being and then fell into oblivion.Now, however, the book is here: a special, historical document of analog photography."(© Steidl Verlag, 2023