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Out-of-print volume 'Berlin 1978-1987' by Boris BECKER shows early works of the photographer of the Düsseldorf Photo School, taken on 35mm and medium format. In the course of history and the change of our perception, these have gained in importance.

Out-of-print artist's book, 'Lange Weile' by Tina BARA, contains b/w-mages taken between 1983 and 1989 in East Berlin, the old GDR and other travels. This visual diary captures a moment right before the collapse of an entire political & ideological system

The large-format photographs in the photo volume 'Ortszeit / Local Time. Fotografien 1990-2004' by Stefan KOPPELKAMM allow a detailed reading of all the traces of time: the dramatic social and economic changes after German reunification become visible.

'Die Deutschen Vietnamesen' by Stefan CANHAM traces the intensive encounters with 13 returnees. Conversations, souvenir photos & family albums bring routes, detours and erroneous routes of the Vietnamese abroad and the time they spent in Germany to life.

'Sibylle' showcases photographers, fashion- & graphic designers, models, writers as well as its political & sociocultural background of almost 50 year long publishing history as the definitive publication on an important chapter of German media history.

The out-of-print photo volume on Helga PARIS documents the melancholy vitality of East Berlin corner pubs and the poetic tristesse of Berlin streets in the 1970s. Here, we travel to Georgia & Transylvania and wander through the industrial city of Halle.

High-contrast chiaroscuro of b/w images by Robert HÄUSSER in out-of-print book 'Die Berliner Mauer' shows the structure as an expression of the brutality of the GDR regime and its contempt for humanity, conveying a feeling of homelessness & imprisonment.

This out-of-print photo volume 'ZwischenZeiten' by Michael KERSTGENS is an empathetic documentation of the town and its inhabitants in Mühlhausen (Thuringia) in March 1990. The b/w title is historical, but unspectacular and therefore all the more poignant

Out-of-print 'Hufelandstrasse. 1055 Berlin' by Harf ZIMMERMANN presents b/w images of people & buildings on this street, as well as intimate color photographs of families in their homes. A historical document of a journey through time devoid of nostalgia.

This out-of-print catalog, 'Photobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks', contains interesting essays on various topics in the history of Central European photo books and - in addition to many photo book illustrations - an article on East German photography.