MESSMER, Arwed

About the German photographer, Arwed MESSMER (b. 1964, Schopfheim)

Arwed MESSMER dedicates the early 1990s as a documentary urban photographer to the changes of Berlin and East Germany. From 2007 on, he also deals with image collections in archives that have lost their original function. The result is extensive exhibitions and publications on East Berlin in the 1950s, the Berlin Wall, the archives of the State Security Service and West German left-wing terrorism.

Photo books by Arwed MESSMER

'Verlorene Wege' (2009); 'So weit kein Auge reicht. Berliner Panoramafotografien aus den Jahren 1949-1953' (2009, photos by Fritz TIEDEMANN, reconstructed by Arwed Messmer); 'Anonymous Heart' (2009); 'The Other View. The Early Berlin Wall' (2011); 'Berlin, Fruchtstraße' (2012, 2022); 'Reenactment MfS' (2014); 'Taking stock of Power' (2016); 'Cell' (2016); 'RAF. No Evidence' (2016); 'Berlin 1966-70' (2018); 'Tiefenenttrümmerung' (forthcoming in 2021)