Wolfgang Krolow: Kreuzberg die Welt
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44,00€
About
This book presents a large selections of works from the German photographer Wolfgang Krolow. It includes unpublished pictures from the 1970s until his death in 2019. His photographs of Kreuzberg in the 1970s and 1980s form the focus of the volume. It was there that Krolow found the backdrop for the coexistence and interaction of different worlds.
His images are always biased, never accusatory, always siding with the ‘ordinary people,’ the protesters, those fighting against oppression and violence.
His gaze is directed at German pensioners in a typical Berlin street scene disappearing into the horizon, or Arab youths running dynamically out of the gate of a house directly opposite the Wall, as well as punks exchanging affection or cutting each other's hair. Squares and streets littered with paving stones after militant demonstrations, burnt-out cars converted into barricades are just as much a subject of his photography as squatters attempting to prevent eviction by the police.
Krolow's images reflect the banal, often bizarre everyday life of the city in an iconographic way, as well as the ‘tenderness and harshness’ on the streets and squares and in the squatted houses in the radical struggle for a better life.
Texts in English and German
288 pages
Published by Assoziation A in May 2025
