Cover english, image source: Thomas Bruns, Patric Dreier

Work Description

Photographer Thomas Bruns has been documenting the rapid changes in Berlin's cityscape for several years in his series on Modernism and the work he began in 2009 on Heide Straße and Lehrter Straße. In his photographic series, Thomas Bruns documents changes and obvious displacement and distribution struggles for public space and preserves them for the future. In contrast to classical architectural photographers and commissioned photography, "too much" appears on it; construction machinery, fences, tarpaulins and demolition, for example, not a "perfect" architectural photograph. The whole misery of the building boom in the inner cities and the simultaneous neglect of existing buildings is revealed here. This unsparing view connects Thomas Bruns with Michael Schmidt and his work complex "Berlin after 45". (Maik Schlüter)

Photobook

LAND (English Edition)

— 2000-2021

by Thomas Bruns

Publisher
Release Place Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Release Date August 2022
Credits
Designer: Patric Dreier
Translation: Jeremy Gaines
Artist: Thomas Bruns
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-3-948678-16-6
Original Price 32.00 EUR
Work  
Genre/Content Form Photography, Architecture
Topics Architectural Landmarks, Architecture, Modernism, Urban Development
Methods Photoraphy
Content 58 page-long photographs document the transformation of Berlin's inner city districts in the eastern and western parts of the city over the last 20 years. Commented by the critics and architects Thibaut de Ruyter and Maik Schlüter.
With an index of the photographs, buildings depicted and their architects.
Language English
Dimensions 24.5 × 29.5 × 1.0 cm
Pages 98
Technique Offset