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    Posted November 8, 2009 by
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    Berlin between 1968 and 1995, Germany
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    I am in art-photography since the beginning of the 1980s. I call this photography "photo-cubism" because it tries to solve certain problems of space and time with the means of photography. I came to live in Berlin in 1967 and soon started to take photos of the wall and the border between the two Germanies. When the wall fell I wanted to take photos of the event. My challenge was, not to take photos as a documentary report but as a sort of art, something between reality and fiction. I managed to produce around 80 exponats. Each  of them consisted of between 20 and 160 takings, which I then composed to one picture without cutting the single photos. For example, the picture of the Brandenburg Gate, taken on November,

    10th, contains around 160 photos. The size of each unicat is between 100x150 cms and 100x80 cms. Professionaly I have worked as a university professor for Sociology, starting at the Technological University of Berlin, then at the UNAM in Mexico City and lately at the University of Darmstadt/Germany. I had several exhibitions in Berlin before leaving for Mexico

    at the end of the nineties. I now appreciate the opportunity of showing again some reproductions of my works related to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, via CNN.

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