Vincenzo Castella: Berlin 89

The landscape and architecture
of a city like Berlin possess a great deal of under-track information.
Inexplicable, yet perceptible, sometimes barely whispered. - Vincenzo Castella

Vincenzo
Castella went to Berlin for the first time between August and September
1989, without imagining that an epochal turning point was preparing in
that city, with the imminent fall of the Wall, on 9th November 1989.

The
volume publishes for the first time the shots of that residency. A
photographic cycle which, although presenting itself as a ‘digression,
an experiment with open outcomes’ as explained by Frank Boehm in his
text, with respect to the themes of his research at the time is fully
inserted in a wider reflection on landscape, understood as a context
built and modified by man, which is also the common thread of all of
Castella’s oeuvre.

For today’s readers, this is not just an
unpublished visual document that, through a silent and essential
revival, gives us a glimpse of how the city looked before history
intervened to cut its boundaries, but also a crucial element to approach
and deepen the work of one of the most appreciated masters of
contemporary photography.

Text in English, German and Italian.