The rapidly changing situation in Berlin during November and December 1989 prompted the artist Marcus Kaiser to travel to the city. The Berlin Wall was already full of numerous openings, holes and breaches, which had been hammered into it by both Berliners and tourists, and Kaiser used some of these holes to encase a camera obscura. At each of the selected openings along the border he took photographs in both directions, east and west. From the Reichstag Building to Potsdamer Platz and the Prinz-Albert-Gelände (ruin of the former Gestapo headquarters) to the border crossing on Prinzenstraße. The final photographic work consists of seven large-format diptychs.
No one is looking here: “it is the Void looking at us”
Knut Ebeling, Maurice Blanchot
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- Reichstag Berlin Wall, 1989 B&W Print, 18×24 cm Marcus Kaiser
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- Marcus Kaiser taking an exposure Berlin Wall, 1989 B&W Print, 18×24 cm Marcus Kaiser
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- Hole in the Wall Berlin Wall, 1989 B&W Print, 18×24 cm
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- Wall Views Documentation Photographs Berlin Wall, 1989, Marcus Kaiser
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- Marcus Kaiser with the plan film cassette Berlin Wall, 1989 B&W Print, 18×24 cm Marcus Kaiser
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- Exposure test directly on photographic paper Berlin Wall, 1989 B&W Print, 18×24 cm
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- Potsdamer Platz Berlin Wall, 1989 B&W Print, 18×24 cm
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- Marcus Kaiser, Berlin, 1989 Berlin Wall, 1989 B&W Print, 18×24 cm Marcus Kaiser Berlin Wall, 1989 B&W Print, 18×24 cm
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- Wall Views Documentation Photographs Berlin Wall, 1989, Marcus Kaiser
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- Opening the film cassette for exposure Berlin Wall, 1989, Marcus Kaiser Berlin Wall, 1989 B&W Print, 18×24 cm
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- Medium, Pencil on paper, 1989, 21×30 cm Pencil sketch of the camera198921x30 cm
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- Wall Views Documentation Photographs Berlin Wall, 1989, Marcus Kaiser
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- Wall Views Documentation Photographs Berlin Wall, 1989, Marcus Kaiser
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- Wall Views Documentation Photographs Berlin Wall, 1989 B&W Print, 18×24 cm Marcus Kaiser
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- (un)marked space, boundary, Pencil on paper, 1989, 21×30 cm Pencil sketch of the camera198921x30 cm
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- Berlin Wall Camera Obscura by Marcus Kaiser Berlin Wall Ideology Photography Laws Form Distinction Void Concept Art
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- Marus Kaiser, Berlin Wall Marcus Kaiser, 1989 Photograph by Ulrich Ricker.
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- Wall Views Documentation Photographs Berlin Wall, 1989, Marcus Kaiser