The images move through Dresden and Berlin with a quiet insistence – portraits, streets, interiors – always attentive, never declarative.

Borchert emerges here not only as a photographer of the GDR and its aftermath, but as an author working through the archive itself. 

Bertram Kaschek’s text reconstructs both life and method, tracing a photographic intelligence shaped by precision, skepticism, and a sustained attention to what remains.

Publisher: Spector Books
Editor: Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Text: Bertram Kaschek
Photographer: Christian Borchert
Design: Helmut Völter

Year: 2020
Pages: 496
Format: 25 × 28 cm
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English

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