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Cinema in far-off places – the movie theaters of East Germany and Cuba
Cinemas
From Babylon Berlin to La Rampa Havana
Lost places of cinema—the photographer Margarete Freudenstadt has dedicated herself to cinema and strikingly captured contemporary history with her camera. Cinemas confronts her melancholic pictures of movie theaters in the former East Germany after the fall of the Wall, with the opulent but crumbling film palaces of today's Cuba in an exciting dialogue.
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In East Germany they were auspiciously named “Progress Movie Theater” or “Film Theater Kosmos”, in Cuba “Riviera”, “Acapulco” or “Florida”— movie theaters in which illusions were sold. They experienced a boom on Cuba in the 1950s under US-American influence.
Margarete Freudenstadt documents with her camera what has remained of this splendor. In the early 1990s she took the opportunity of recording the movie theaters of Eastern Germany with their architecture and style before they succumbed to modern multiplexes. This volume unites both photo series and shows that these sometimes abandoned places still retain the magic of cinema.
Margarete Freudenstadt documents with her camera what has remained of this splendor. In the early 1990s she took the opportunity of recording the movie theaters of Eastern Germany with their architecture and style before they succumbed to modern multiplexes. This volume unites both photo series and shows that these sometimes abandoned places still retain the magic of cinema.
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Bei diesem Band geht dem Architektur- und Filmfreund das Herz auf.
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Viele Kinos müssen schließen ‒ weltweit. Alte Lichtspielhäuser, die oft leer stehen und verfallen. Die Münchner Fotografin Margarethe Freudenstadt hat ein besonderes Faible für diese einst glanzvollen Räume und dokumentiert diesen Kino-Kosmos, der verloren geht ‒ von Russland über Kuba bis hin zu ehemaligen sozialistischen »DDR-Volkslichtspielen«.
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Ed. Christoph Wagner
Photographer Margarete Freudenstadt
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released on 08/2020
Contributions by Gerald Dagit, Peter Krieger, Barbara Muhr, Michael M. Thoss and Christoph Wagner
English-German edition96 pages, 80 colour illustrations
26 x 29 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3458-2
Keywords
Photography, Cinema, East Cinema, Cuba, Cinema Palace, 20th century
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