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"By a series of fortunate events, Mark POWER was present at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. To mark the 25th anniversary, his photo volume 'Die Mauer its Weg!' (out-of-print to date, self-published) is bound as a pastiche of a newspaper the British magnum photographer purchased in Berlin the morning after, embossed into heavy-duty cardboard.
While the early pages read as news-based photojournalism, as the book unfolds retreats away from the epicentre of the event to re-camp over the border in an almost desolate East Berlin. From there the photographer views the story from another perspective, before embarking on a (frankly rather pointless) search for Bertolt Brecht's grave. The book is both a record of a major 20th century news event and a piece of critical soul-searching about the lessons learnt from the experience as, in the accompanying essay, Power recounts his fascinating tale of chance and choice."