Mark Power: Die Mauer ist Weg!

Mark Power is a British photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and Professor of Photography in The Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton. Power has been awarded the Terence Donovan Award and an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society.

Germany – 

By a series of fortunate events, Photography feature – Mark Power was present at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

To mark the 25th anniversary, this new production (self-published under his new imprint, Globtik Books) is bound as a pastiche of a newspaper Power purchased in Berlin the morning after, embossed into heavy-duty cardboard.

 
While the early pages read as news-based photojournalism, as the book unfolds Power retreats away from the epicentre of the event to re-camp over the border in an almost desolate East Berlin. From there he views the story from another perspective, before embarking on a (frankly rather pointless) search for Bertolt Brecht’s grave.

 
The book is both a record of a major 20th century news event and a piece of critical soul-searching about the lessons learnt from the experience as, in the accompanying essay, Power recounts his fascinating tale of chance and choice.

 
 
Mark Power’s self-published book ‘Die Mauer ist Weg!’ was selected as ‘Best Book 2014‘ by Manik Katyal.

 
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Published by Globtik Books (2014)
Designed by Ania Nalecka / Tapir Book Design
Edition of 1,000
96 pages (44 double page plates) printed in tritone on Munken 170gm
Hardback 380 x 282mm cover with 315 x 235mm pages

 

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