BERGEMANN, Sibylle - Himmelhölle Manhattan

First edition 1986, with annotations in the text!

Background information

In the 1980s, writer Irene Runge traveled to Manhattan with photographer Sibylle BERGEMANN. The author, born there in 1942, whose parents emigrated from Germany to Paris shortly before 1933 and on to the USA in 1936 and returned to the newly founded GDR as early as 1949 during the anti-communist mood of the McCarthy era, became absorbed in the US-American metropolis. 

Content

Sibylle BERGEMANN's more than thirty full- and often double-page black-and-white photographs illustrate the 240-plus-page text, depicting day-to-day events in Manhattan; the image descriptions remain very descriptive, not very artistic. Nevertheless, the photos are very distinctive of Sibylle BERGEMANN's work: very atmospherically staged motifs with a dash of social criticism.

About German photographer, Sibylle BERGEMANN (1941-2010)

Photo books by and about the work of Sibylle BERGEMANN