Background information
"The German photographer Evelyn RICHTER put East German life worlds into the picture as critically as emphatically, always placing the human being at the center of her observation. She understood her artistic-documentary work in opposition to the politically intended images of the time.
Content
The catalog volume on the work of Evelyn RICHTER presents central groups of works, from the beginnings of her photographic activity in the 1950s to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It also includes photographs from her archive. With texts by Linda Conze (head of the photography collection at the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf), Florian Ebner (head of the photographic collection at the Centre Pompidou, Paris), Philipp Freytag (head of the Carlfriedrich Claus Archive at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz), Sandra Starke (research associate at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History Research, Potsdam), Jeannette Stoschek (deputy director and head of the graphic collection and the Ursula Arnold Archive of the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig). " (© Spector Books, 2022)