Postfrumpt-Mitte East Berlin
November - December 1999
Congratulations...
The first exhibition in Berlin that is about something....very good work.
The Wall will fall soon.
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Hey Anthony,
I found the book and photos a great piece of work. Some may complain about the
darkness of content, but if I turn my camera in any direction in Russia I would
also end in what you paint as Russia 1999.
And, is the photographer actually still alive?
Very interesting exhibition, very troubled times...
Dark and depressing but thank you for opening my eyes.
Perfect.
“REAL!!”
Very beautiful photos. A very strong impression.
-C. Guggenheim
“Chilling” but very important to see.
Insightful and vivid photography helping to understand a many-faceted issue. Thank you. This American has been further educated.
Depressing! Powerful! Disturbing!
A brilliant artistic document of the reality of these times. Well framed and presented. Brilliant respect of light and use of space.
It has been a long time since I saw something that really matters ...
You have shown me another world! After this excellent exhibition I see the world with a different eye. Thanks again.
Before to come to Russia this photographer had already his
NEGATIVE opinion about land.
He was SPECIALLY looking for mud, dirt, blood, pain....I do not like this exhibition...
Dark pictures - good food for my brain - gives me a lot to think about, to get the idea of my place in this world.
Moving and depressing - What is wrong with human beings!
It’s not everything true about the life in Russia. It’s so dirty.
Powerful images, enlightening, moving.
It’s simply PARALYSIS that I carry out of these rooms.
Thank you for bringing the images together in such a place.
The exhibition was brilliant.
I am impressed and depressed by the photos at the same time.
I shot corpses and decapitated heads, suffocated, and stabbed
kids...violence violence violence... and so in the end it was all so fucking
beautiful.
--approx. translation of passages from MAO II , Don Deillo
Warning: All these pictures are taken by one American photographer who partly sold his pictures to TIME magazine and others.
Very impressive. One can imagine a story behind practically every photo. It’s hard to believe that more conflict is still possible in Grozny.
The world appears to have gone crazy, no one has learnt from the past. The western financial powers preach democracy to Eastern Europe but they only want profit which then destroys order. People have lost their ideals, they no longer have any goals in life. The result is frustration and alcohol. There is so much to do in these countries but without a strong, coordinated government. So much for this pretended great democracy. By the way, it’s not only in Russia, Romania, Poland that there are shocking situations to photograph. There is also love, luck and joy. This I miss. Also Berlin has bad corners and ..homeless people. Only black and white bad-East - good West. Who is still believing this?
First of all, (these are) black and white paintings a la Spiegel ! On one label, there is something about power, the beauty within people. This I understand but I don't see it in the photos. I'm even angry with the photographer that he photographs the dark side in the first place. This only encourages the distorted image of Middle-Western Europe vis a vis the East.
I compliment the courage of the person who created these photos.
Your eye for the "details" of people's lives is very impressive, especially for Eastern Europe.
Shocking photos! It's hard to believe that is reality and not a horrible film.
One learns how to see "globally".
I just arrived in Berlin, and coincidentally at this exhibition.
There is no escaping, or is there?
-From Croatia
It's good to see these photos because words in the newspapers and books appear to be so far away. Through the photos I understand the truth that I usually ignore. Everyone should be obliged to see these photos.
Remarkable - not only "victims" but also resistance.
Here we see the reality that we don't want to believe is true. I was born in one of the countries shown in this exhibition. Now I can be very thankful that I was born and live in the "West".
I have no words for this "conflict of emotions".