Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/13

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Subject: [Leica] Apropos visiting Berlin
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:57:07 +0200
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That film is one of my all-time favorites.

Cheers,
Nathan

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On Jun 13, 2009, at 11:06 PM, Peter Klein wrote:

> This is fantastic, Mads.
>
> How many of you have seen the German film, "The Lives of Others,"  
> which depicts life in East Berlin under the Stasi.  The director  
> said that one of the ways that they evoked that time and place was  
> to minimize the use of red in the scenery.  Ironically, the  
> sometimes outdated color film used in Beier's photos evokes a  
> similar feeling, even though the actual color shift is different.
>
> --Peter
>
> "Mads Christensen" <mads.christensen at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> The Danish daily Politiken.dk ran an article today about 60,000  
>> forgotten
>> photos showing daily life in DDR, all taken by a teacher Manfred  
>> Beier
>> (1927-2002). There was a link to this article on Spiegel.de:
>>
>>
>> http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,627720,00.html
>>
>>
>> According to the Spiegel article, a photography exhibit at the Berlin
>> gallery "Unterwegs" features a selection of Beier's photos until  
>> June 20.
>> More information  <http://www.berlinbook.com/4752.html> here (in  
>> German):
>>
>>
>> http://www.berlinbook.com/4752.html
>>
>> The Beier Collection Web site can be reached here:
>>
>> http://www.sammlung-beier.de/english
>> Mads
>>
>>
>
>
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