Background information
"Published in its entirety for the first time: the photo cycle of human coexistence in the GDR of the 1970s and 1980s, created over two decades.
Ute MAHLER is one of the most influential photographers of the East. After the fall of the Wall, she and other chroniclers of the GDR founded 'Ostkreuz', the successful agency for author photography. A distinctly humanistic view of the world determines both the photographer's artistic works and her fashion and portrait photographs for magazines.
Content
More than 40 years ago, Ute MAHLER began the photo series for the volume 'Zusammenleben' (Living Together), which subtly captures different ways in which people experience everyday life together and shows what remains unsaid between the lines: The black-and-white shots gently yet unadorned tell of life in GDR times. Mahler completed her collection of countless possibilities of an arrangement of men, women, children, friends and strangers, found again and again, in 1988 with the feeling that she had seen something essential. Now, for the first time, her images-truly signs of the times-appear in their entirety in book form." (© Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014)
About German photographer, Ute MAHLER (*1949 in Berka)
Photo books by as well as with photographic works by Ute MAHLER
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Sibylle Berg
- Book design
- Ckara BAHLSEN
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23,5 x 30 x 2 cm., 144 pp., 75 duplex b/w ills., multi-lingual texts: German / English / French