Author Topic: Mark Power: Die Mauer Ist Weg!  (Read 756 times)

Ed Wenn

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Mark Power: Die Mauer Ist Weg!
« on: October 28, 2014, 01:02:27 PM »
One for all you b/w photo journalism junkies (like me):  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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Re: Mark Power: Die Mauer Ist Weg!
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2014, 02:47:09 PM »
Looks good.  Bought it

Cheers for the tip Treacle.