The rapidly changing situation in Berlin during November and December 1989 prompted the artist Marcus Kaiser to travel to the city. The Berlin Wall was already full of numerous openings, holes and breaches, which had been hammered into it by both Berliners and tourists, and Kaiser used some of these holes to encase a camera obscura. At each of the selected openings along the border he took photographs in both directions, east and west. From the Reichstag Building to Potsdamer Platz and the Prinz-Albert-Gelände (ruin of the former Gestapo headquarters) to the border crossing on Prinzenstraße. The final photographic work consists of seven large-format diptychs.
Marus Kaiser, Berlin Wall
Marcus Kaiser, 1989
Photograph by Ulrich Ricker.
Medium, Pencil on paper, 1989, 21×30 cm
Pencil sketch of the camera198921x30 cm
Opening the film cassette for exposure
Berlin Wall, 1989, Marcus Kaiser
Berlin Wall, 1989
B&W Print, 18×24 cm
Berlin Wall Camera Obscura by Marcus Kaiser
Berlin Wall Ideology Photography Laws Form Distinction Void Concept Art
(un)marked space, boundary, Pencil on paper, 1989, 21×30 cm
Pencil sketch of the camera198921x30 cm
Marcus Kaiser taking an exposure
Berlin Wall, 1989
B&W Print, 18×24 cm Marcus Kaiser
Reichstag
Berlin Wall, 1989
B&W Print, 18×24 cm Marcus Kaiser
Wall Views Documentation Photographs
Berlin Wall, 1989, Marcus Kaiser
Hole in the Wall
Berlin Wall, 1989
B&W Print, 18×24 cm
Wall Views Documentation Photographs
Berlin Wall, 1989, Marcus Kaiser
Wall Views Documentation Photographs
Berlin Wall, 1989
B&W Print, 18×24 cm Marcus Kaiser
Wall Views Documentation Photographs
Berlin Wall, 1989, Marcus Kaiser
Wall Views Documentation Photographs
Berlin Wall, 1989, Marcus Kaiser
Exposure test directly on photographic paper
Berlin Wall, 1989
B&W Print, 18×24 cm
Potsdamer Platz
Berlin Wall, 1989
B&W Print, 18×24 cm
Marcus Kaiser with the plan film cassette
Berlin Wall, 1989
B&W Print, 18×24 cm Marcus Kaiser
Wall Views Documentation Photographs
Berlin Wall, 1989, Marcus Kaiser
Marcus Kaiser, Berlin, 1989
Berlin Wall, 1989 B&W Print, 18×24 cm Marcus Kaiser
Berlin Wall, 1989
B&W Print, 18×24 cm