Arwed Messmer - Berlin, Fruchtstraße am 27. März 1952 / on March 27,1952 (signed) Berthold Brecht

Arwed Messmer - Berlin, Fruchtstraße am 27. März 1952 / on March 27,1952 (signed) Berthold BrechtSpector 2022 On 27 March 1952 Berlins municipal authorities commissioned Fritz Tiedemann to take photographs of the section of Fruchtstrae between Ostbahnhof station and Stalinallee. His images document views of the faades on the street seven years after the end of World War II and two decades before the buildings were demolished. The plan to destroy them was already in place when Tiedemann produced his pictures. Arwed Messmer and Annett Grschner used

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Numerous books books dealing with the fighting on the western front were published around the First World War

making pictures allowed him to rediscover the community he grew up in but no longer knew

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which then again correspond with all the images that are already there

“Todd Hido finds the poetry in that strangeness

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