Berlin

<p><strong>Berlin</strong> has survived two world wars, was divided by a wall during the Cold War, and after the fall of the wall was reunited. The city emerged as a center of European power and culture. From 1860 to the present day, <strong>this book is the most comprehensive photographic study of this extraordinary city</strong>, dense with spirit as much as with history.<br /><br /> Some<strong> 560 pages </strong>gather aerial views, street scenes, portraits, and more to trace Berlin history from the Imperial Era as capital of Prussia through the<strong> Roaring Twenties</strong> to devastating images of war to heartwarming postwar photos of a city picking up the pieces—the Reichstag in ruins and later wrapped by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Among the photographs are works by <strong>Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helmut Newton, René Burri, Robert Capa, Thomas Struth</strong>, and <strong>Wolfgang Tillmans </strong>in addition to well-known Berlin photo-chroniclers such as Friedrich Seidenstücker, Erich Salomon, Willy Römer, and Heinrich Zille (an index of photographers’ biographies is also included).<br /><br /> The <strong>images are accompanied by quotes from Berliners and Berlin connoisseurs </strong>such as Vladimir Nabokov, Alfred Döblin, Herwarth Walden, Marlene Dietrich, Billy Wilder, John F. Kennedy, Willy Brandt, Helmut Newton, Sir Simon Rattle, and David Bowie. More than a tribute to the city and its civic, social, and photographic history, this book pays homage to Berlin’s inhabitants: full of hope and strength, in their faces is reflected Berlin’s undying soul.</p>