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PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11 x 10.25 in. / 256 pgs / 117 color / 84 bw.

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Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2011 p. 165   

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ISBN 9783775728133 TRADE
List Price: $55.00 CAD $72.50

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HATJE CANTZ

Thomas Hoepker: DDR Views

Text by Wolf Biermann, Günter Kunert, Eva Windmöller.

In DDR Views, Thomas Hoepker (born 1936) documents life in East Germany from 1959 to the fall of the Berlin Wall: photos of children playing along the wall, party rallies, propaganda posters, ramshackle old façades from the Imperial Era and new apartment blocks, images of Sunday outings and empty supermarket display cases, all tell the tale of a nation that is no more.
Thomas Hoepker: DDR Views

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

FROM THE BOOK
"Views of the DDR--a fine title, given that the word "views" has multiple connotations: Each view of the object documented simultaneously reveals the views of Hoepker as the photographing subject. He is certainly neither an aesthetic formal purist nor a scandal-crazed snapshooter aiming from the hip. He does not serve up impartial, comic snapshots! These photographs are proof: Hoepker defends imperfect, even the worst democracy against the best dictatorship. He prefers uncomfortable freedom to comfortable oppression. Sympathy and even forbearance towards the weaknesses of the people, but tolerance for the intolerance of their oppressors--never!"

Wolf Biermann, excerpted from the foreword to DDR Views.

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Pub Date: 6/28/2022
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