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The catalogue is published in conjunction with the first comprehensive retrospective on the work of photographer Christian Borchert (1942-2000). Borchert was born in Dresden and did most of his work there and in Berlin. His most important groups of photographs are presented in a representative selection, supplemented by the documentation of significant print and archive material. The accompanying text reconstructs the photographer´s life and work. Besides considering key clusters of his work, it also analyses Borchert´s archival practice, which had a decisive influence on his under- standing of photography. This provides an opportunity to rediscover Borchert-as an author of images who engages with the world, while at the same time dedicating himself to the archive; as a cautious and precise chronicler; as a dynamic figure in the GDR photography scene and as a skeptically distanced observer of the post-reunification period. Christian Borchert: The Tectonics of Remembrance is the first complete presentation of his photographic work.

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