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Die Berliner Zeit (SIGNED)

Rineke Dijkstra
Die Berliner Zeit (SIGNED)

Photographs: Rineke Dijkstra & Bart Domburg

Text: Friedrich Meschede

Publisher: Berliner Kunsterprogramm

Year: 2000

Comments: Hardcover. First edition, 2000. Text in german. In great condition. Copy signed by Rineke Dijkstra and Bart Domburg. Scarce and collectible copy !

The title of this elegant and now very scarce volume translates roughly as 'the Berlin spirit' ('zeit being one of those impossible-to-translate words). In it Dijkstra's portraits are paired with Domburg's images of archetypal Berlin locations. Though concentrating on teenagers, their collaboration to produce a something like what August Sander (who also photographed landscapes in addition to his much better known portraits) set out to do earlier in the twentieth century: a collective portrait of a time and place.