The Documentation Center for Everyday Life in the GDR
The following images were taken in 2009 and 2010 at the archive of the Documentation Center for Everyday Culture in the GDR, located in the former School 7 in Eisenhüttenstadt. The archive has since moved. Thanks to Andreas Ludwig for making this project possible.
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Reevaluating Lamps, Light, and Darkness
When presenting my work, I use my own documentary photographs and the personal archives of my informants—family photos, newspaper clippings, and postcards—to give a sense of how Eisenhüttenstadt has been depicted and remembered from its inception to the present. The following is the slideshow that I used during an invited lecture at Dartmouth College.
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