VERY SCARCE OPPORTUNITY to purchase this fantastic photobook by Mitch Epstein about Berlin - in BRANDNEW CONDITION + SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed by Mitch Epstein. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE. New, mint, unread. Still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher`s plastic foil; only opened once for the signature. COLLECTOR'S COPY. This is the LAST EXCLUSIVE BEST-OF-PHOTOBOOKS AUCTION by 5Uhr30.com, Cologne, Germany - STARTING THIS YEAR. "Berliners have chosen to leave traces of the worst of themselves in their architecture and landscape. They have understood what a largely amnesiac America has not: reform relies on memory." (Mitch Epstein) 5Uhr30.com guarantees detailed and accurate descriptions, 100% transport protection, 100% transport insurance and of course combined shipping - worldwide. Steidl and Partners, Göttingen and The American Academy, Berlin. 2011. First edition, first printing. Hardcover in linen with slipcase (as issued). 245 x 295 mm. 72 pages. 33 photographs. Four colour process. Edited by Susan Bell and Ryan Spencer. Book design by McCall Associates, New York. Text by Mitch Epstein. Text in English. Great photobook in perfect condition - signed by the artist. In 2008 Mitch Epstein won the Berlin Prize in Arts and Letters and was awarded a six-month residency at the American Academy in Berlin. Epstein proudly accepted the offer and initially planned to read and reflect in the academy’s comfortable surroundings. But he could not ignore the call of contemporary Berlin for long. As a Jewish-American whose relatives died in the Holocaust, Germany has since held an uneasy resonance for Epstein and his family. Epstein set out to confront this past by photographing the remnants of Berlin’s war and postwar histories. The resulting images – including the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, fashion billboards at Checkpoint Charlie, the Jewish Memorial at Potsdammer Platz and the Dalai Lama speaking at the Brandenburg Gate - reveal Berlin’s present to be a fraught accumulation of the layers of its past.