a time travel throught late german history.....

[stratherb]

take a look at the german L-forum
Herb

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/menschen/86677-zeitreise-meine-alte-analoge-m-zeit.html

 

[kshapero]

I don't speak German. Lost me on this one.

 

[stratherb]

there is no need to speak german, you speak "photos" )

 

[historicist]

Unfortunately you can't see the photos unless you are a member of the forum...

EDIT: which is a shame, they sound very interesting.

2nd EDIT: actually, I was intrigued so I registered. The poster was a photojournalist from the mid 70s onwards who used Leica, the pictures are from this time. They are quite incredible, I recommend registering and having a look.

 

[monkeypainter]

The photos are outstanding!

 

[stratherb]

thank you so much
Herbert Piel

 

[urban_alchemist]

Woah..........

 

[stratherb]

or take a look at here, the first weeks after the fall of the german democratic republic DDR.....
http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/menschen/86737-zeitreise-ddr-brd.html#post909133

 

[maddoc]

An outstanding photo-documentation of recent German history.

Cheers,

Gabor

 

[stratherb]

Hi Gabor, luv your pics with the nocti ,-)))))
Herb

 

[stratherb]

some examples for you......

 

[stratherb]

and some more

 

[stratherb]

and the rest...you can find here..

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/menschen/86677-zeitreise-meine-alte-analoge-m-zeit.html

and here:
http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/menschen/86737-zeitreise-ddr-brd.html

or here:
http://www.dforum.net/showthread.php?t=542859

also here:
http://web.mac.com/pielmedia/iWeb/Web-Site/Fotos ab 1975.html

 

[chris00nj]

With b&w photos and the lack of development in East Germany between 1945 and 1990, it's really hard to place the time of the photos there. It would be equally believable if it was said that the photos were from from 1963 or 1988.

 

[P. Lynn Miller]

Wow! Thanks for sharing. Stunning and amazing work.

My uncle lived about 100m from 'The Wall' in Berlin from the late '60's onward. We never, ever received phone calls from him, but one night... we got the call... the Berlin Wall had come down. He now lives in what was East Germany and he has told me of that night and how surreal it was to walk down his street which had been cut-off by the wall and to be able to keep walking.

I recognised many of the photographs, so this photographer must have been rather widely published.

 

[35mmdelux]

Groovy and dankeschon.

 

[enochRoot]

wow is right. simply amazing photos! i'd give anything to have a portfolio like that

 

[stratherb]

Wow! Thanks for sharing. Stunning and amazing work.

My uncle lived about 100m from 'The Wall' in Berlin from the late '60's onward. We never, ever received phone calls from him, but one night... we got the call... the Berlin Wall had come down. He now lives in what was East Germany and he has told me of that night and how surreal it was to walk down his street which had been cut-off by the wall and to be able to keep walking.

I recognised many of the photographs, so this photographer must have been rather widely published.

Thank you so much for those friendly words, indeed, my photos were published all over the world, cause a lot of them I took for AP in the past.... all photos were made between 1975 and 2000, today I don´t work so much in journalism, but I found my pics agien ;-))) a few days ago, and I thought I have to show.... again, many thanks..
Herb

 

[stratherb]

there are not so much more pics from Josef, some portraits.....
I met him in a region here in germany called hunsrueck, nearby the nuerburgring, where he wanted to build a kind of university for arts... we had a nice evening with a lot of good german wine, and we found out, that we both have been at the same school as kids...
in Kleve..... so we had a very cool talk about that and he was a very nice and friendly guy with a lot of humour....I think I have a nice autograph (with a hat ;-))) here , but I don´t know where...;-))

 

[naruto]

Thank you so much for those friendly words, indeed, my photos were published all over the world, cause a lot of them I took for AP in the past.... all photos were made between 1975 and 2000, today I don´t work so much in journalism, but I found my pics agien ;-))) a few days ago, and I thought I have to show.... again, many thanks..
Herb

those are great photos Herb. I had to dig out my L-camera forum username and password. But, it was worth the effort.