East German socialism in pictures circa 1987

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Some great stuff on this site.
These are really good. Could be heading this way again, you'd never know.

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-57351.html
 
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PeteUM

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Interesting stuff, ta. Lots of good photography stuff seems to be passing under my nose via the net lately. Guess there's some sort of obvious point about the image being set free and the general unlimited accessability of digital data but I am not going to make it.
 
hucks

hucks

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der spiegel said:
Communist authorities suspected that Wittenburg's photos amounted to a critique of the regime, but they weren't sure.
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Also, what Pete said. I can spend hours on Flickr going through people's shots. And I've seen like 4 sets of fucking heartbreaking photos from Chernobyl online, linked from random twitter feeds and what have you
 
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BareBones

wheezy
right click on a picture, click copy image location, then use the insert image button when you're writing a post and paste the image URL into there.

(this is all assuming you're on pc)
 
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PeteUM

It's all grist
I signed up to an email subscription thing at Iconic Photos so I get a picture or so a day with background/related information. It's like a Yakult data burst of history/culture/ideas etc, if you will.
 
grizzleb

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PeteUM said:
I signed up to an email subscription thing at Iconic Photos so I get a picture or so a day with background/related information. It's like a Yakult data burst of history/culture/ideas etc, if you will.
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Nice, my email is overflowing with absolute shite (10,000 unopened emails) so another addition of something potentially decent is not bad.

I seen a few galleries recently that would fit into this aesthetic, urban decay in detroit in recent years and in NYC in the 70's. Both pretty grim galleries; I'll try to find them after my dinner.

edit: Found the Detroit one I think, can't see the NYC one unfortunately. The Detroit one seems to be shortened because a book of the photos is being published. Anyway.

http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/index01.html
 
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bruno

bruno

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i was born in rostock, likely in one of the estates seen in the spiegel gallery, i'll have to ask which one. my first memory is of large structures with space between them and these photos are like a clear version of that image, it's striking. i am genuinely curious about the fate of these buildings.
 
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