Berlin: Between the Wars

This book presents an evocative photographic portrait of Berlin during the dramatic years of the Weimar Republic, between the end of the Empire and the birth of the Third Reich. Drawing onextensive archives in Berlin, it publishes photographs rarely seen outside Germany. By the 1920s Berlin was an important center of lively experimentation in all the art forms but was also a city of contrasts, high to low.Berliners at work and at leisure appear almost as apparitions from a past coded over with its historical inheritance. A lively text by Thomas Friedrich introduces each chapter, and detailed captions and commentaries. 240p.