BARA, Tina - Lange Weile

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"The out-of-print artist's volume 'Lange Weile' by German photographer Tina BARA contains a selection of four-hundred black-and-white photographs taken between 1983 and 1989 in East Berlin, the old GDR and other travels. Documentary photographs on a clandestine trip to Russia, forbidden scenes from the VEB Buna chemical plant, and observations of punks and other young rebels are interwoven with intense full-body and portrait photographs of her friends as well as a 'photographic love story.' Combined with texts in the form of subtitles, this poignant body of work captures a cinematic-like quality. She also shares her search for feminine identity within the subversive, melancholy rebellion against East Germany’s dictatorial system. Her photographs convey the collective need to break out of a monotonous system repressive of individuality and self-will that no longer exist. This visual diary captures a moment right before the collapse of an entire political and ideological system." (© Fotohof Edition, 2016)

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• a) 'The Freedom Within Us. East German Photography From 1980-1989' with photographs by Tina BARA among other photographers from the GDR (Sibylle BERGEMANN, Kurt BUCHWALD, Lutz DAMMBECK, Christiane EISLER, Thomas FLORSCHÜTZ, York der KNOEFEL, Ute MAHLER, Eva MAHN, Sven MARQUARDT, Barbara METSELAAR-BERTHOLD, Helga PARIS, Manfred PAUL, Rudolf SCHÄFER, Gundula SCHULZE-ELDOWY, Gabriele STÖTZER, Ulrich WÜST)
  b) 'Von Ferne. Bilder zur DDR' (with photographs by Tina BARA, Seiichi FURUYA, Tamami IINUMA, Sven JOHNE, Jens KLEIN, Jürgen KUTTNER, Christian LANGE, Emanuel MATHIAS, Katrin MAYER, Simon MENNER, Einar SCHLEEF, Christine SCHLEGEL, Joachim SCHMID, Erasmus SCHRÖTER, Maya SCHWEIZER, Gabriele STÖTZER, Paul Alexander STOLLE, Elisabeth TONNARD, Andreas TROGISCH, Joerg WAEHNER, Ulrich WÜST)
  

About German photographer, Tina BARA (b.1962)

Photo books by and with works by Tina BARA