Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 Ironically, the sometimes outdated color film used in Beier's photos evokes a similar feeling, even though the actual color shift is different.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 > > >