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Subject: [Leica] Apropos visiting Berlin
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:30:36 -0500
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very well done in all ways

Regards,
George Lottermoser
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On Jun 13, 2009, at 10:57 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> That film is one of my all-time favorites.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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>
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>
>
>
> On Jun 13, 2009, at 11:06 PM, Peter Klein wrote:
>
>> This is fantastic, Mads.
>>
>> How many of you have seen the German film, "The Lives of Others,"  
>> which depicts life in East Berlin under the Stasi.  The director  
>> said that one of the ways that they evoked that time and place was  
>> to minimize the use of red in the scenery.  Ironically, the  
>> sometimes outdated color film used in Beier's photos evokes a  
>> similar feeling, even though the actual color shift is different.
>>
>> --Peter
>>
>> "Mads Christensen" <mads.christensen at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>> The Danish daily Politiken.dk ran an article today about 60,000  
>>> forgotten
>>> photos showing daily life in DDR, all taken by a teacher Manfred  
>>> Beier
>>> (1927-2002). There was a link to this article on Spiegel.de:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,627720,00.html
>>>
>>>
>>> According to the Spiegel article, a photography exhibit at the  
>>> Berlin
>>> gallery "Unterwegs" features a selection of Beier's photos until  
>>> June 20.
>>> More information  <http://www.berlinbook.com/4752.html> here (in  
>>> German):
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.berlinbook.com/4752.html
>>>
>>> The Beier Collection Web site can be reached here:
>>>
>>> http://www.sammlung-beier.de/english
>>> Mads
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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