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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.

Putlitzbruecke, Berlin Deutschland, Germany, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (7): “Asian Food”

Why is an Asian food (“Asiatisches Lebensmittel”) warehouse outlet situated next to a waste- and recycling-facility? Circumstances couldn’t be helped? Microaggressions manifested as a passive-aggressive real-estate interaction?

Am I also complicit in white privilege?

I made the image above on 24 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/1000-sec, f/10, ISO1000, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vGg.

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.

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.

Mehringplatz, Hallesches Tor, Berlin, Deutschland, Germany, Shepard Fairey, Make Art Not War, One Wall

Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (4): Make Art Not War

Up from the north exit to the U-Bahn junction station Hallesches Tor, the piece of art on the east side is this piece by Shepard Fairey for the One Wall project in 2014. Pieces like this, big on building walls or small in dark little corners, are found everywhere in Berlin: some will stay for awhile, some will disappear quickly.

I made the image above on 19 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/500-sec, f/10, ISO1000, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vsP.