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Berlin, Deutschland, Germany, Helmut Newton, Helmut Newton Stiftung, Museum fuer Fotografie, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (8): Helmut Newton’s Polaroids

Polaroid by Helmut Newton, for American Vogue, Monaco, 1979.

Newton made many small Polaroid images throughout his renowned career as a way to test or experiment with ideas, because all he had at the time were film-cameras. In other words, he could afford to “waste” Polaroids, but not his “work film”. Yes, I know: I made a photograph of a Polaroid made to print and set on display in a museum in Berlin. But there’s something subversive about this digital version existing somewhere in the aether, an image which many will look and pass by, in a similar manner unknowing to them of having seen a physical print somewhere in a museum or gallery.

I made the image above on 25 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/60-sec, f/4, ISO3200, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vHs.

German Museum of Technology, Deutsches Technikmuseum, Day and Night, Ludwig Brunow, Anhalter Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany, Deutschland, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (6): Day and Night

“Day and Night” (1880) are a pair of statues by sculptor Ludwig Brunow which decorated the upper portion of the main portal at Berlin’s Anhalter train station (Anhalter Bahnhof). These originals reside in Berlin’s German Museum of Technology (Deutsches Technikmuseum): the woman at left represents night, and the man at right represents day. The two sculptures presently at the facade remnant at Anhalter Bahnhof are replicas.

I made the image above on 23 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/30-sec, f/8, ISO3200, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vG4.

25T90 Final full day: summer of `25

E89, C06.

I’m in Cologne on the 90th and penultimate travel day. Fortunately, I still have “room” for travel day 91 and Europe day 90: my last day within Schengen to allow for a timely departure. I didn’t need to stay in Frankfurt this time, because with ICE trains, I can go non-stop from Cologne to Frankfurt Airport in 70 minutes. But I will soon leave with another truckload of memories, thousands of images, and time well spent in places crucially important to me.

The 2025 numbers for 90 days:

  • Total distance walked: 746 km / 464 mi.
  • Total number of steps: 1.02 million.
  • Daily average distance walked: 8.3 km / 5.2 mi.
  • Daily average number of steps: 11347.

Rudolfplatz: transport junction for lines 1, 7, 12, 15; and bus routes 136, 146.
Dürener Strasse 199-203: there’s a dark-grey plaque at far-left and a “stumbling stone” or Stolperstein at lower-right.
Known for his series of turn-of-the-century portraits, photographer August Sander (1876-1964) lived and worked at Dürener Strasse 201 from 1911 to 1944. This memorial plaque is on the wall next to the entrance at Dürener Strasse 199-203. The August Sander photograph archives are located at the SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne’s Mediapark.
Stumbling stone (Stolperstein) within the pavement in front of Dürener Strasse 199-203: Photographer and August Sander’s son, Erich, arrested for high treason in 1934; died age 40 on 23 March 1944 at the NS penitentiary in Siegburg.
Sander family grave at Melaten Cemetery.
Rudolfplatz: “BoConcept: (offering) one-on-one consultations on interior design.”
Of these great people in the frame, I’ve known two of them since 2002-2003. The setting that is the Latin American restaurant El Inca is a favourite. (Thanks to MW for the image.)
Last light of the day, facing northwest from Barbarossaplatz towards the Herz Jesu church (left-centre) near Zülpicher Platz.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 5 August 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

25T89 Cologne Ehrenfeld: “Ihrefeld is my kinda Veedel”

E88, C05.

Some of my best friends in the country are in Cologne, as I’ve known them for almost 25 years. Back in 2002, I’d been introduced to the city’s big football team, as well as the Ehrenfeld district, to which I try and get back when I’m in town. (I tried to stop at Kebapland, but the 630pm queue was already crazy long, and I remember good alternatives in the near.)

To begin my walk west, I’m at the Innerer Grüngürtel (Inner Green Belt) Park, within sight of the Deutsche Telekom building, the 266-metre Colonius telecommunications tower, and the 102-metre Hercules high-rise from left to right, respectively.
I’ve gotta try to time my stay next time, so I can get a tour of the city’s central mosque. The place opened in September 2018.
“the wait was torture” // Magic Play
Opened in 1912, the Neptune Baths have been converted to a fitness and wellness facility since 2002.
Helios is a local landmark in Ehrenfeld.
That’s not a real maritime lighthouse; it’s a structure marking the location of a big factory that once manufactured electrical equipment including maritime lights. I wrote a short blurb about Helios here.
Kölsch Bloot (Cologne blood) is a clothing company based in Ehrenfeld, which explains the Helios structure, the city’s coat of arms, and the silhouette of the city’s cathedral.
A 2nd-ad in the Veedel for Netflix and the upcoming 2nd season of “Wednesday”. That queue for Kebapland at lower- right is too long for my state of “hungry.
This, is Ehrenfeld.
This little tiled piece represents the logo for football team 1. FC Köln. It’s not obvious, but plain as day for fans and for those who know.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 4 August 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

Schlachtfeld Deutschland XI/78, Katharina Sieverding, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Deutschland, Germany, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (5): Battlefield Deutschland

In the 1970s, West Germany experienced inner unrest and great confusion: was there “law and order”, was there a “police state”. The questions and answers depended partly upon political spectrum and age. To quote the information panel provided by the Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery):

… In West Gernany, the armed struggle of individual political groups like the Red Army Faction (RAF) leads to widespread public debate. After kidnappings and terrorist attacks by the RAF, the West German government establishes the GSG 9, a special police unit charged with protection and enforcing order. Artist Katharina Sieverding uses a press photo of the GSG 9 to give the image a new and critically charged meaning. In her piece “Battlefield Germany”, the police appear threatening, suggesting the process of becoming a state governed by violence.

I made the image above on 22 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/60-sec, f/5.6, ISO2500, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vsX.