DDR Ansichten, Views of a Vanished Country

Thomas Hoepker

BOO 2540 U
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CONDITION & NOTES
Used – Good / Exterior has signs of wear, including scuffing and some bumps along the edges and a scuff on the front cover. Interior in Very Good condition with a very slightly wavy book block. Signed in black pen on the title page.

TYPE PUBLICATION YEAR
Hardcover

2011

EDITION LANGUAGE
First

English, German

PUBLISHER DIMENSIONS
Hatje Cantz 29 x 27 x 3 cm
CONDITION
Used – Good / Exterior has signs of wear, including scuffing and some bumps along the edges and a scuff on the front cover. Interior in Very Good condition with a very slightly wavy book block. Signed in black pen on the title page.

TYPE
Hardcover

PUBLICATION YEAR
2011

EDITION
First

LANGUAGE
English, German

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

DIMENSIONS
29 x 27 x 3 cm

ABOUT

In the early 1970s, Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker – who had at the time worked as a photojournalist for magazines such as Stern and Geo for a number of years – was accredited to work in the DDR along with his then-wife,  Eva Windmöller – a journalist who also worked for Stern.

 

“We took it for granted that our apartment was bugged, maybe even that our car was bugged. We had come there armed with lots of addresses and telephone numbers for relatives living in East Germany – and we called them up: ‘Surprise, surprise! We are now living in East Berlin. Why don’t you come by and we can talk a bit?’ There was zero enthusiasm…” Hoepker recalled in an interview with The Economist, in 2009, “Any East German who had any sort of important job was not meant to have what they called ‘a West contact’.”

 

The pair spent several years in the East, reporting on politics and everyday life. A selection of Hoepker’s photographs which span the early years of the wall’s construction, as well as his time living in the East, became the book – DDR Ansichten – Views of a Vanished Country."