Berlin

First edition of Berlin by jason Langer (2022)

First impression 

Large format hardback in new condition

Choose between an unsigned or a signed copy

*Please note that the signed copy is signed by Jason Langer to dedication page

Published by Kerber Verlag

About

In 1973, photographer Jason Langer’s parents divorced and his mother, feeling compelled to get back to her Jewish roots, took Langer and his two brothers to live on a kibbutz in Israel. There each year on Yom Kippur, Langer and other children in the “children’s house” were asked to stand in silence at the local Holocaust memorial, think of their ancestors who had suffered most recently from the Nazis, and be thankful to live in their Promised Land. Langer lived in Israel from the age of 6 to 11, formative years which have shaped him to this day, so when he was invited to Berlin in 2008 to photograph the city, he met the suggestion with trepidation. Associating the German capital with its 20th century atrocities, he saw it as a cold, unfriendly place. Even so he accepted, and from 2009-2013 he explored the city mostly on foot, with two film cameras and black and white film. He photographed Berlin with an eye towards places where Jewish people were deported or killed but also took it as an opportunity to confront and update his preconceived notions and find a new narrative of contemporary Germany and the German people. Photographing the streets, people he met on the way, and acquaintances who grew to be friends, he tracked traces of the Holocaust, the Cold War, and imagined the freedom and creative expression of the roaring 20s. As is typical of Langer’s photographs his vision is timeless, entirely personal and mixes history and fantasy.