Ute & Werner Mahler - Lissabon ’87/88 (signed) Japanese Photography

Ute & Werner Mahler - Lissabon ’87/88 (signed) Japanese PhotographyHartmann Books 2022 In 1987 and 1988 photographers Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler, together with author Wolfgang Kil, made two trips to Lisbon to photograph and describe the city and its people for a book, to be published by Leipzig Brockhaus. They were already well known in the GDR, and it was a rare opportunity for them to have a look at the other side of the Iron Curtain. But the book planned for 1989 could no longer be released and thus shared the

plus a one of a kind snapshot from the collection of Project B

From the start

His work in the midwestern city of Omaha reveals America as pluralized

photographed out of the car on Polapan

and Armenia

and a visual journey through some of its unlikeliest imagery

The only light is emitted through two windows which sit crossways from one another

more than a half-century after the Aperture and Museum of Modern Art edition was published in 1968

but using new image files scanned from Ghirri’s original film to take advantage of modern technology and printing methods

The photos from Ahrenshoop show a place that no longer exists today

during which time the United States was literally at a political crossroads

He tracks Cape Town’s transformation from agrarian outpost of empire into an industrial hub founded on ruthless capitalist ethos