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Background information
"The charm of the photographs by German Magnum photographer Thomas HOEPKER lies in their documentary quality, their authenticity, and their testimonial character, for they were produced by an impartial eye. He was a photojournalist for magazines such as Stern and Geo for many years. In the early seventies he and his wife, journalist Eva Windmöller, were accredited in the German Democratic Republic, and they spent several years reporting on politics and everyday life in East Berlin.
Content
In this volume, 'DDR Ansichten. Views of a Vanished Country', Thomas HOEPKER documents life in East Germany from 1959 to the political turn of events in the late eighties: photos of children playing on the Berlin Wall, party rallies, propaganda posters, ramshackle old façades from the Imperial Era and new apartment blocks, Sunday outings and empty supermarket display cases, as well as portraits of artists such as Wolf Biermann tell tales of a vanished nation." (publisher's note, © Hatje Cantz, 2011)
About the German Magnum photographer, Thomas HOEPKER (b.1936, in Munich)
Photo books by Thomas HOEPKER
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Wolf Biermann
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28,5 x 27 x 2,5 cm., 240 pp., b/w & color ills., bilingual text: English / German