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Showing posts with label black and white. Show all posts
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I tried to come up with a title a little more catchy.
Really.
I did.
But seriously: is there anything more to say?
U8 Bernauer Straße: from Berlin to South Africa
This summer, the project Kunst im Untergrund has been launched at various underground stations all over Berlin,
part of which is the station U8 Bernauer Straße:
a station all about story-telling - in language and in photographs.
part of which is the station U8 Bernauer Straße:
a station all about story-telling - in language and in photographs.
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The pictures by South African photographer Abrie Fourie
and the words by South African-Croatian writer Ivan Vladislavić
secretly talk to each other:
Pretoria (Fourie's home) meets Johannesburg (Vladislavić's home),
South Africa meets Berlin,
the language of the photographs meets the imagery of fiction.
and the words by South African-Croatian writer Ivan Vladislavić
secretly talk to each other:
Pretoria (Fourie's home) meets Johannesburg (Vladislavić's home),
South Africa meets Berlin,
the language of the photographs meets the imagery of fiction.
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Read an inspiring interview with Vladislavić in The White Review.
"When I write about the origins of my work, even with certainty, I sometimes feel the way you do when you relate a dream. As you cast it into language, you know you are bringing it across some barrier into another realm, translating it into different terms and employing different logics, which change its character. It’s a good and necessary thing, I’m sure, that the origins and procedures of writing remain mysterious, to the writer especially."
"When I write about the origins of my work, even with certainty, I sometimes feel the way you do when you relate a dream. As you cast it into language, you know you are bringing it across some barrier into another realm, translating it into different terms and employing different logics, which change its character. It’s a good and necessary thing, I’m sure, that the origins and procedures of writing remain mysterious, to the writer especially."
U8 Jannowitzbrücke
It's time for a new train station: U8 Jannowitzbrücke
where one of the city's most notorious underground lines stops,
connecting Wedding in northern and Neukölln in southern Berlin.
Such as U2 Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz the station is decorated
with huge historical black and white photographies
dating from the 1880ies (above)
to the turn of the century, the 1930ies (below) and beyond.
The most recent pictures (below) still date back to the middle of the century,
the time when Germany was divided and Berlin Jannowitzbrücke belonged to the GDR.
Even the exit area is decorated with historical pictures
leading you outside to the Spree riverside.
winterwonderland II
@ Nikolaisaal, Potsdam
This weekend I have been to Chor@Berlin
an annual Berlin choir festival that not only took place at the Radialsystem V in Berlin Mitte
but also at the Nikolaisaal Potsdam yesterday night for Potsdam's Night of the Choirs.
At the end of this great festival with such musical and tonal variety,
the whole city was covered in white snow and a magical silence.
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