SIGNED; Uwe Reichenberg, Joseph von Westphalen - DDR 1986-1989 (SPECIAL EDITION with PRINT) - 1996

IMPORTANT, SCARCE GERMAN PHOTO PUBLICATION:
Deutschland im Fotobuch, Thomas Wiegand, Manfred Heiting, page 40/41

Here as NUMBERED and SIGNED SPECIAL EDITION - with COLOR PRINT (130 x 180 mm).
STRONGLY LIMITED to 250 copies only (here number 72).

Signed by the artist.
I GUARANTEE THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE SIGNATURE.

This slim volume shows impressions from the GDR before the "Wende",
as the reunification of 1989/90 was called.

Like new and unread condition - COLLECTOR'S COPY.

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Verlag der Argonauten, Bietigheim. 1996. First edition, first printing.

Softcover (as issued). 209 x 296 mm. 94 pages. 38 photos (12 black and white, 26 colour). Photos: Uwe Reichenberg. Foreword: Joseph von Westphalen. Text in German.

Condition:
Inside new, mint, unread. Outside with very light trace of use; no remarkable defects. Overall near mint, near perfect condition.

Great German photo publication - in fantastic fresh condition.

The first part contains the colour photographs; the 1-page glossary at the end of the volume shows that they were taken between 1987 and 1989. The deserted pictures show relatively bleak scenes, mostly shops, cars or (parts of) buildings; in the second part (except for one picture, 1986 - 1987) the pictures become even more melancholy: obviously abandoned buildings create the image of a time that has come to a standstill.
The glued-on original photograph (not dated, numbered or signed) on the last page, "Volkswacht", stands in stark contrast to this with its ochre-red colouring.
Joseph Graf von Westphalen, born 1945 in Schwandorf, is a German writer who is best known as a satirist.