PARIS, Helga - Helga Paris

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"Born in Gollnow, Poland, in 1938, photographer Helga PARIS plays a prominent role in German photography. Her work contains the poetry of Henri CARTIER-BRESSON as well as the austerity of August SANDER or Albert RENGER-PATZSCH.
Helga PARIS, who has lived in Berlin since 1966, is a chronicler of the long East German post-war period. Over more than three decades, her tenderly precise gaze is directed at the people who live it. Her photographs tell of the melancholy vitality of East Berlin corner pubs and the poetic tristesse of old Berlin streets in the 1970s.
One encounters garbage collectors, headstrong, angry and level-headed young people or proud textile workers. You travel to Georgia and Transylvania and wander through the central German industrial city of Halle, a 'diva in gray'." (Publisher's text, © Hatje Cantz, 2012)

About German photographer, Helga PARIS (b.1938)

Photo books by and with works by Helga PARIS