FANTASTIC CATAOLOGUE BOOK by the famous east-german photographer Helga Paris (1938-2024) - published on the occasion of the exhibition at "Berlinische Galerie" and at "Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur" in 2004. Bodly signed by Helga Paris. I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE. Welcome to the "GERMAN PHOTOBOOKS" auction by Ecki Heuser (5Uhr30.com, Cologne) - with more than 100 fantastic lots. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 OF MY BOOKS IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Berlinische Galerie and Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur. 2004. First edition, first printing. Hardcover without jacket (as issued). 230 x 275 mm. 32 pages. 17 black and white photos. Photos: Helga Paris. With text by Ulrich Dömröse. Text in German. Condition: Inside excellent, fresh and flawless; like new and unread. Outside with light trace of use. Overall very fine condition. Great photo publication by one of the most important (east) german photographers - signed by the artist. Having lived in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district since 1966, Helga Paris (born 1938) began taking photos of people in her neighbourhood in the early 1970s. She found her photographic motifs in flats, pubs, break rooms and factory halls, or on the streets and in train stations. With a background in modernist painting, theatre and poetry as well as early Soviet, Italian and French cinema, the autodidact photographer has spent the last four and a half decades developing an extensive œuvre of delicate, nuanced black-and-white photography. But she is not only a chronicler of Prenzlauer Berg. Helga Paris also has taken photos in Halle, Leipzig, Transylvania, Georgia, Moscow, Volgograd and New York. There, as in her local neighbourhood, she constantly explores how it feels “to be in history”, and how the respective circumstances are reflected at the most private level. Helga Paris' imagery has a particular poetic approachability, in part because it forgoes all ideological interpretations; her gaze suggests profound solidarity.