GOSSAGE, John. Berlin in the Time of the Wall… (Bethesda, MD): Loosestrife Editions, 2004 (SIGNED - WITH A PROOF PRINT)



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SIGNED - WITH A PROOF PRINT

GOSSAGE, John.
Berlin in the Time of the Wall…
(Bethesda, MD): Loosestrife Editions, 2004.

Large 4to (328 × 254 mm), pp.464. 464 black-and-white photographs. Text by Gerry Badger. Design by Gossage. Black endpapers. Black-and-white photo-illustrated paper-covered boards, black, text in red, black cloth spine with titles lettered in bronze. Publisher’s printed acetate dust-jacket, text in white to front panel and flaps. Publisher’s cardboard slipcase, printed label, olive, text in black, blue, and red. Signed by Gossage in black ink on half-title. Laid in is an original silver gelatin photograph (278 × 215 mm), annotated in pencil, Gossage’s copyright and a ‘proof print’ stamp to verso. Fine.

First edition, one of 20 signed copies sold at the launch of an exhibition of Gossage’s proof prints from this series at Galerie J.J. Heckenhauer, Berlin in 2005, with one of the prints that was available at the exhibition laid in. The photographs were taken between Spring 1982 and Autumn 1993 on several visits to Berlin. Gossage first came to the city to participate at the Werkstatt für Photographie, a collective led by Michael Schmidt and based at the Volkshochschule in Kreuzberg. Throughout the 1980s Schmidt invited a number of American photographers such as William Eggleston, Larry Clark, Lewis Baltz, and Gossage to Berlin where they made work and taught workshops with young German and occasionally other European photographers. Among those whose work was informed by these exchanges were Volker Heinze, Thomas Weski, Joachim Brohm, and Paul Graham.

‘So the Berlin you see in this book is of another time, a time when the Wall defined the city, its people, their thoughts and mine. Everyone will tell you a different story. It’s all just memory now, a history book.’

Neumüller, M and González, Á. L., Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade pp.16-17, p.72.

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