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Which Board? => Main Forum => : Ed Wenn October 28, 2014, 01:02:27 PM
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One for all you b/w photo journalism junkies (like me): http://www.markpower.co.uk/Die-Mauer-ist-Weg (http://www.markpower.co.uk/Die-Mauer-ist-Weg)
"By a series of fortunate events, Mark Power was present at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
To mark the 25th anniversary, this new production (self-published under his new imprint, Globtik Books) is bound as a pastiche of a newspaper Power purchased in Berlin the morning after, embossed into heavy-duty cardboard.
While the early pages read as news-based photojournalism, as the book unfolds Power retreats away from the epicentre of the event to re-camp over the border in an almost desolate East Berlin. From there he 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."
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Looks good. Bought it
Cheers for the tip Treacle.