GREAT OPPORTUNITY to purchase this scarce and excellent exhibition catalogue by Helga Paris (1938-2024), one of the most important photographers from east germany - in BRANDNEW CONDITION. New, mint, unread. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 OF MY BOOKS IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Having lived in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district since 1966, Helga Paris 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's imagery has a particular poetic approachability, in part because it forgoes all ideological interpretations; her gaze suggests profound solidarity. Fotogalerie Kulturamt Friedrichshain. Berlin. 1997. First edition, first printing. Paperback (as issued). 270 x 240 mm. 64 pages. Black and white photos. Photos: Helga Paris. Text in German. Great photo publication by Helga Paris - in perfect condition.