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Giovanni Chiaramonte: Berlin (German Edition)
Giovanni Chiaramonte Berlin - German Edition Author:Giovanni Chiaramonte, Kurt W. Forster To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin — Wall, we are bringing out this unusual Berlin book — by Giovanni Chiaramonte, with photographs taken — between 1983 and 2003. — Chiaramonte's Berlin appears to hover just as much — between the past and future as between the West — and the East. Could this be because Chiaramonte — looks at Berlin ... more »with the eyes of a Sicilian? At any
rate, his is not the official outlook of the airy fairy
Berlin and tourism industries. An eye sensitive to
the beauty of ruins from Potsdam to Potsdamer Platz,
summer warmth, blue skies and the warm glow of red
brick distinguish Chiaramonte's photographs. And
of course Chiaramonte also reveres the architecture
from Schinkel to Aldo Rossi that very formal severity
that allows the city to spring out of the wastelands,